The business challenge that prompted the COE IT Team, in partnership with the Georgia Tech Office of Information Technology (OIT), to investigate flash storage array technology can be summed up in two words: login storm. “Imagine you have 150 students coming into a lecture hall, turning on their laptops, trying to connect at the same time to the VDI infrastructure, and then launching something like MATLAB [a sophisticated technical computing application],” says Didier Contis, Director of IT Services for COE.
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