University of Melbourne Builds Best of Breed Infrastructure

To maintain its position as Australia’s leading university, the University of Melbourne required new storage technology which would provide ongoing support for high workload requirements.

• Existing tier one SAN infrastructure was at full capacity.
• Costly expansion was required to enable growth of virtual machine usage over the next couple of years.
• Simply expanding would not provide space saving technologies such as deduplication and compression.
• The university required centralized storage with the capability to support spikes in virtualization workloads during peak periods such as student enrollment and the release of student results.