AUT tackles expanding data problems with new storage infrastructure solution

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HPE Technology Services consulted
with AUT and advised on the optimum
deployment of platforms and integrating
them with backup software. The complete
HPE end-to-end primary, secondary and
backup infrastructure included HPE 3PAR
7400 All-Flash Array (AFA), 3PAR StoreServ
8200, StoreOnce 4900, c7000 BladeSystem
chassis, Virtual Connect FlexFabric,
ProLiant BL460c Gen 9 servers,
consulting and support services.
Benefit
Delivering high performance to
scattered student population
“The standardised HPE BladeSystem
architecture is a holistic single architecture
tool set and it freed up our IT team to focus
on higher value tasks like applications
delivery as opposed to simply keeping the
lights on and tinkering at the back end.”
The HPE storage solution was delivering
high performance to the widely scattered
student body totalling nearly 28000 and the
volume of complaints slumped. One example
of introducing new services was the migration
of all student email to Microsoft® Oice 365.
“When emails were on in-house storage,
we could only give 200 MB of storage but
now students can have a terabyte and easily
share information. Meanwhile the university
can populate their calendars on the run
with critical information such as
curriculum changes.”
AUT do not own a dedicated data centre.
It took a strategic decision to go to a
commercially hosted data centre with
Datacom housing the HPE storage solution.
The HPE solution is delivering operational
savings such as reduction in the data centre
footprint and lowered power, cooling and
rack requirements amounting to a 75%
cost saving over a five year period. “We are
achieving lower leasing costs and ensuring a
robust Data Recovery (DR) environment to
guarantee data integrity.”
Solving the university’s “shadow”
IT problem
Cullum explains how the HPE 3PAR
StoreServ Storage solutions solved what
he described as AUT’s ‘shadow’ IT problem.
“There are lots of schools and organisations
within the university that run their own
IT systems. This is a risk for any university
where a lot of data being created is of
high value intellectual property. This is
key research data which may lie on some
random system and the great risk is that the
university’s IT team doesn’t have an oversight
across these platforms. Moving them to the
new HPE 3PAR bulk store facility eliminates
that risk.”
Case study
Auckland University
of Technology,
New Zealand
Industry
Education