Boston U: A Study In Storage

SOLUTION PROVIDER
Corporate Technologies,

Burlington, Mass.

MARKET/CUSTOMER
Boston University's College of Engineering

CONCEPT
To centralize stored data on a single system and do away with disparate client devices and servers.

CHALLENGE
One of the biggest problems large universities face--particularly those with computer-science or engineering programs--is a user base that's just a bit too sophisticated for its own good. Take Boston University's College of Engineering, where 7 TB of storage space on about 50 servers made finding and securing data a nightmare.

SOLUTION
Corporate Technologies deployed Network Appliance's FAS3020 enterprise-storage system, which can run in Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS and CIFS environments, and supports lower-cost SATA drives. Also, the FAS3020 is expandable, so it can handle the eightfold data growth anticipated by the school in the next several years.

KEY TO SUCCESS
Before Corporate Technologies implemented its solution, "hackers were having a field day and people were constantly losing their data...Now every desktop is connected to the NetApp system."
--Carlos Moreira, director of technology and systems at Boston University's College of Engineering