Menlo College

VDI Solution Set
Project Snapshot
  • Desktops: 365 persistent and non-persistent
  • Use Cases: Labs, Library, Faculty, Staff, Specialty Kiosks
  • Cost: Less than $300 per desktop leveraging local storage
  • Applications: 75, including Microsoft Office, Adobe suite, Jenzabar ERP
  • Benefits: 16 gold images reduced to 1; faster lab provisioning; instant faculty desktop repair; anywhere, anytime student access to labs
"Unidesk’s layering technology is really changing our lives and helping us create a world-class desktop computing infrastructure for our students and staff that maximizes utility, while minimizing costs."
- Raechelle Clemmons, CIO, Menlo College
Case Study
Menlo College Transforms Desktop Computing with Unidesk (coming soon)
On-Demand Webinar
Virtual Desktops Everyone Loves: The Menlo College VDI Success Story (co-hosted by VMware and Unidesk)
Press Release
Menlo College Implements Virtual Desktops for all Use Cases at Virtually the Same Cost as Physical PCs with Unidesk and VMware
Blog Posts
Out on a Limb with Virtual Desktops – What’s in it for You?
VDI Right on the Money
Telling It Like It Is - 10 VDI Lessons from the Real World
Imagining the Possibilities: WWYD With VDI?
Virtual Desktops: Persistent, Non-Persistent, or….Both?
Presentations
Dispelling the Myths about VDI Usage, Cost, and Complexity
In the News
The Path to VDI
EDUTECH | Karen D. Schwartz | August 5, 2011
Navigating the Virtual Desktop Challenge
CIO | Raechelle Clemmons | May 11, 2011