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CASE STUDY | VIRTUALIZATION AT UMASS LOWELL DELIVERING HIGH- PERFORMANCE VIRTUALIZATION AT UMASS LOWELL Untethering Students and Faculty for A New Way of Learning AT A GLANCE CHALLENGE Company: UMass Lowell The Future of Education Industry: Education UMass Lowell is a national research university with more than 17,800 Location: Lowell, MA Size: 17,800 Students bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree students. Named the #10 Best Value College in America by Forbes, the campus is well on track SUMMARY to reach 20,000 students by 2020. To keep up with the explosive growth, UMass Lowell has more than 17,800 the University recently built new social science and business school students with plans to grow to 20,000 by 2020. buildings along with an emerging technology and innovation center. It has Building new buildings on campus also expanded floor space and renovated existing space to accommodate required massive capital undertaking. new students. However, building new buildings is a massive capital Students required access to applications from anywhere. undertaking. The campus turned to Steve Athanas, Director of Platforms Launched vLabs program with GRID Systems Engineering, for a different approach. Software and M60 vGPUs to deliver high performance VDI to all students and faculty. “We needed a place to put everyone,” said Over 80% of the students agree that vLabs and 63% percent thought that Athanas. “At the end of the day you can only vLabs