Saskatchewan Polytechnic Ushers in the Future with Next-Gen Learning Powered by HPE GreenLake

By transforming to state-of-the-art IT solutions, the institution’s students can learn securely

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced an agreement with Saskatchewan Polytechnic to improve student and faculty experience, and modernize its technology environment and deliver enhanced flexibility with the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform.

“Ultimately, we determined Sask Polytech wanted to provide an improved student and faculty experience through high availability and enhanced security, while decreasing overall costs. HPE GreenLake was the best solution for them”

Sask Polytech, the province’s primary public institution for post-secondary technical education and skills training and its only polytechnic, has been a leader in innovative applied learning for more than 60 years. Sask Polytech offers over 150 hands-on degree, diploma and certificate programs to students at four campus locations across the province of Saskatchewan.

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Sask Polytech sought to transform IT deployment and consumption, and selected an agile cloud operating experience so it could engage computing resources quickly and efficiently on a pay-per-use financial model, while having the security and protection of their data on-premises.

“What we needed more than anything from our chosen solution was flexibility to fit within our environment,” said Gwen Bourque, associate vice-president for Information Technology Services at Sask Polytech. “We also needed a strategic plan to upcycle and replace our aged technology at the right moment in time. We’ve been working with HPE in some capacity for more than a decade and chose to work with our partners who know our needs to find efficient solutions.”

With an enrollment of more than 11,000 students, Sask Polytech wanted to utilize a system that would ensure business continuity and a seamless migration of the applications and workloads onto the new environment. In addition, with some courses using graphic-intensive workloads, consistency in high availability was imperative. The HPE GreenLake platform offered an edge-to-cloud experience that would allow for the flexibility the team knew they would need. Additionally, using HPE SimpliVity to transition from Hyper-V to VMWare, the team is already seeing improvements to their VDI workloads for remote education.

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“Supporting new training models and heavy computing demands stemming from AI, CAD (Computer-Aided Design), GAM (Generalized Additive Models) and graphic-intensive applications is an area that will continue to grow in demand for countless areas of study, and ensuring high availability and continuity as systems transition over time is imperative to ensure learning, testing, reporting and grading experience no disruptions,” said Andrew Perchaluk, Hybrid-IT Enterprise Architect, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “We are thrilled to bring the best mix of resources to Sask Polytech to meet their needs in an energy-efficient, end-to-end solution that will impact not only students and faculty, but a significant percentage of workers in the province across many vital industries.”

Powerland, an HPE Partner with more than 30 years of expertise in planning, deploying, supporting and managing technology solutions for organizations, worked with Sask Polytech to determine their needs and priorities, and proposed the HPE GreenLake and HPE SimpliVity solutions the school is now using.

“Ultimately, we determined Sask Polytech wanted to provide an improved student and faculty experience through high availability and enhanced security, while decreasing overall costs. HPE GreenLake was the best solution for them,” said Chris MacDonald, Technical Account Manager, Powerland Computers Canada. “And with this solution, we’ve been able to increase distance education opportunities for students, which has become vital for education institutions over the past few years.”

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