Citrix and VDI in K12 Schools

Based in Indianapolis, Ind., The Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation (GEO) has worked statewide to improve public education since 1998. Specifically, GEO helped foster support for Indiana’s current charter school law and now sponsors three charter schools in the state, as well as in Colorado – totaling more than 1,200 students. In addition, GEO operates a statewide tutoring program and its Charter School Service Center assists other leaders in establishing and operating their charter schools.

As GEO grew, its computing infrastructure strained to keep up with demands. GEO was faced with supporting multiple schools and server farms, growing storage needs with expensive cooling requirements, and the issue of desktop backups becoming more difficult and expensive. Desktop upgrades were another extreme challenge.The desktop upgrade system cost GEO more than $75,000 per school every four to five years for the desktop alone.