Education

Simplifying IT Modernization for K-12 and Higher Education

Education IT leaders choose Nutanix to easily and quickly deploy infrastructure, applications and data across on-premises, edge and cloud environments – and manage it all with an easy-to-use centralized dashboard.

Nutanix for Schools and Libraries

Nutanix for Universities and Colleges

Spotlight on Security

Protect your data and applications from internal and external threats with the Nutanix Cloud Platform.

1 July 2024

Fifth Annual Enterprise Cloud Index Report for Public Sector

K-12 and Higher Educational institutions are planning to rapidly increase their use of mixed IT environments within the next 3 years. Read the report for more findings!

26 July 2023

Nutanix Integrated Solution Bundles: Now Available for E-Rate Category 2 Funding

Schools and libraries can now choose Nutanix to deliver a superior learning experience and provide affordable access for students and the public.

8 August 2022

Support all your learning environments, from classroom to lab and beyond, with consistently responsive and agile IT

Gain Agility

Keep pace with student learning by delivering IT resources when and where they’re needed.

Eliminate Downtime

Leverage affordable, integrated data protection and disaster recovery for always-on operations.

Centralize IT and Apps for Education

Lower infrastructure costs by 36% and reduce carbon emissions (in kg CO2) by 57.5K annually.

Teach, Learn and Work from Anywhere

Learn how Nutanix delivers seamless end-user access to virtual apps and desktops from any location. You can deploy 8X faster whether you want to run virtual desktops and apps in the cloud or the data center.

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Meet Education’s Unique Challenges

Rely on Flexible IT at Lower TCO

Take advantage of highly adaptable infrastructure to meet the challenges of modern education: from online testing, to BYOD adoption, to increased school data access, to the surge in learning apps and instructional videos, institutions are having to do much more with their IT while meeting ever-tighter budgets.

Virtualize Your IT

By virtualizing server applications and traditional desktops, educational institutions can efficiently use their infrastructure, provide a consistent user experience with optimized application performance, and simplify management for IT administrators. Nutanix made it easy.

All Your IT Resources, Together

Realize cost savings and get predictable scalability for all types of virtual workloads by integrating compute and storage with Nutanix.

Turnkey Solution

Deploy responsive infrastructure for virtual desktops and applications, without the variable performance and risk of conventional solutions.

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Low Cost-to-Start

Start with small deployments and grow incrementally into very large installations, thanks to a modular design. Perfect for school districts and universities.

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2 July 2019

Validated Workloads

Enjoy validated solutions for business critical apps such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, SQL Server, VDI, LMS, and SIS that provide flexibility and faster time to deployment.

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Low Cost-to-Run

Gain operational efficiency with simplified management, a small footprint, and low cooling and power costs.

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Hypervisor Choice

Run the hypervisor of your choice based on budget and preference, including our native, license-free hypervisor, AHV.

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Secure Operations

Protect student and staff data proactively with built-in security and compliance management.

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2 July 2019

See How Our Customers Have Transformed with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Texas A&M University System

“Nutanix is enabling us to keep up with our fast growth rate with a very small IT team. This would not have been possible if we hadn’t migrated to Nutanix and the Acropolis Hypervisor.”

– Cary Tschirhart, Manager and ISO, Information Technology Services

2 February 2024

Case Study

California State University, Long Beach

“Ultimately we are here to serve students and help them graduate in four to six years. Nutanix lets us make services and software available to them, when they need them, so that they can succeed.”

– Jesse Santana, Director, System and Web Services

Industries:Education
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure:AOS Storage
Nutanix Cloud Manager:Intelligent Operations
Products:Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
Resource Type:Case Study

4 April 2022

Case Study

Avon Grove School District

“Nutanix did a great job in extending one-click disaster recovery to the cloud. For the first time, DR is simple”

– Mike Tustin, Network Administrator

Industries:Education
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure:AHV Virtualization
Region:North America
Resource Type:Case Study
Use Cases:Data Protection & Disaster Recovery

8 March 2022

Case Study

William Jessup University

“I’m no longer nervous about the old hard drive SAN failing. With Nutanix in place, I feel like I have a good support structure if there is an issue… Having a single point of contact for compute and storage, having them proactively watch it – these things are very helpful to a small IT department like ours.“

– Dan Dutcher, Systems Administrator

Education:Higher Education
Resource Type:Case Study

1 June 2014

Case Study

University of Reading

“We have yet to find a workload that the AHV hypervisor can’t handle, and it's fully integrated with the rest of the Enterprise Cloud software, making it easy to build the self-service portal we wanted and allow academics to provision their own resources.”

– Ryan Kennedy, Academic Computing Team Manager

Industries:Education
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure:AHV Virtualization
Region:EMEA
Resource Type:Case Study, Videos

2 December 2019

The Wharton School

“The ability to easily see performance and disk usage metrics is one of the things that was very intriguing to us when we originally looked at Nutanix. Having accurate capacity projections right at our fingertips with Prism is a huge advantage for us and our end users.”

– Matt Frew, IT Director of Wharton Computing Enterprise Services and Solutions

4 February 2025

Case Study

Klein Independent School District

"There’s still a lot of uncertainty around whether students will be back in the classroom, working remotely, or a hybrid of the two going forward. With Nutanix Xi Frame, our students will be able to continue their classes and be assured that they are not left behind."

– Chris Cummings, Director of IT for Klein Independent School District

Industries:Education
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure:AHV Virtualization
Region:North America
Resource Type:Case Study
Use Cases:Business Critical and Enterprise Apps, Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), Edge and Remote Sites (ROBO), VDI

16 February 2024

Case Study

Ozarks Technical Community College

"We have a hybrid environment, running our LMS and email on the cloud, and our most critical applications such as ERP, SIS, and our security and surveillance system on premises—all running on Nutanix."

– Eric Kyle, Chief Technology Officer
Ozarks Technical Community College

Industries:Education
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure:AHV Virtualization
Nutanix Cloud Manager:Intelligent Operations, Self-Service
Products:Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
Region:North America
Resource Type:Case Study
Use Cases:Business Critical and Enterprise Apps, Data Protection & Disaster Recovery

27 June 2022

Explore Our Latest Resources

The Path to IT Modernization in Higher Ed

An enterprise cloud approach gives colleges and universities a cost-effective foundation for new data-driven initiatives.

Enabling New Efficiencies for Education IT

Learn how server and storage consolidation can help IT better support academics and business operations.

IT Infrastructure for Distance Education

The Nutanix hybrid cloud platform is simple to operate, fully secure with a zero-trust approach, and is extremely scalable and resilient.Learn how educational institutions can build digital campuses with secure access to students, teachers, and administrators.

Intelligent Management of Your Higher Ed Hybrid Cloud

Every college and university wants to simplify its IT infrastructure while lowering TCO. For many institutions, the best approach involves developing a hybrid cloud narrative that incorporates solid ROI.

University of California Takes Charge of Multi-Cloud Environment

Find out how University of California San Diego saves money, enhances security and improves compliance with software-as-a-service solution.

Let's Get Started!

See how the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud can deliver effortless performance for all your workloads while meeting your budget.