SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - March 10, 2010) - NetApp (
NASDAQ:
NTAP) today announced that
The College of Saint Rose has implemented NetApp® and VMware®
virtualization solutions to tackle the challenges of data growth,
availability, and reliability. Saint Rose has been able to quadruple its
data availability and save an estimated $100,000 a year in hardware costs
by using a combination of NetApp storage efficiency and data management
technologies in their VMware virtual server environment.
Located in Albany, New York, The College of Saint Rose has about 3,000
undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students, in addition to continuing
education programs. The college was faced with a growing amount of data and
number of servers and had trouble managing backup and recovery for its
disjointed systems. To manage data growth, the college bought new servers
and spent several weeks provisioning them. Meanwhile, storage utilization
rates were only 20% to 25%. This model put a strain on the financial
resources of the college and was difficult for the small staff of four
administrators to manage. It was also at odds with the college's green
initiative to reduce emissions and power use.
The College of Saint Rose contacted Atec Group, an IT solutions provider
and NetApp Platinum Partner, to help design and implement a better way to
manage its data. Atec Group recommended NetApp storage to support a new
virtualized infrastructure based on VMware vSphere™. The new solution
includes a NetApp FAS3000 series system in the main data center that
supports Microsoft® Exchange 2007 servers, Microsoft SQL Server®
databases via Fibre Channel, VMware and Microsoft test environments via
iSCSI, and file shares via CIFS.
The benefits from moving to NetApp and VMware have been dramatic for Saint
Rose, which has reduced its data center's physical footprint and energy use
by virtualizing 80 servers on 5 physical machines. NetApp thin provisioning
and deduplication technology helped improve the college's storage
efficiency, increasing utilization rates by up to 85%. Now, instead of
buying more storage to deal with data growth, the college simply uses
reclaimed storage it already has, deferring $134,000 in hardware costs each
year.
NetApp storage has also helped relieve the system administrators of many of
their time-consuming processes. Previously, provisioning a new server could
take months from getting a purchase order to installing the unit, and the
small administration staff would then spend weeks provisioning it. Now the
college's administrators can back up, restore, and copy virtual machines in
just minutes with NetApp FlexClone® and Snapshot™ technology,
delivering a huge boost to productivity and saving up to $20,000 for each
new server.
"NetApp has allowed us to move our infrastructure to a point where we can
easily support the needs of our students and faculty," said Alekseiv
Pavlinik, senior network administrator at The College of Saint Rose. "We've
virtually eliminated server and storage costs, grown our infrastructure
while maintaining the same size staff, and can now create copies of data at
will for development or backup needs."
"NetApp is committed to helping our customers remove complexity from their
infrastructures with best-of-breed solutions and exceptional technology
partners," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances
at NetApp. "We're very pleased that The College of Saint Rose achieved such
great results in managing their data, increasing efficiency, and delivering
services to their students. Their success was not only from our advanced
storage solutions but also our network of stellar solution partners."
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For more information about The College of Saint Rose, visit:
www.strose.edu
For more information about Atec Group, visit
www.atecgroup.com
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