HP Virtualizes Storage for California State University, Monterey Bay
With another EVA, the P6000
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 3, 2012 at 2:54 pmHewlett-Packard Company announced that California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB)
selected HP P6000 EVA to deliver around-the-clock
data access to its students and faculty, as well as increased storage capacity
in support of scholastic research applications.
CSU Monterey Bay’s purchase of the HP EVA represents the 100,000th
unit sold since the product family’s inception in 2001.
CSUMB, one of 23 campuses within the California State University
system, already relied on a previous version of the EVA to store education
plans and resources for more than 5,000 students and faculty for the past six
years. With ongoing data growth and deployment of new applications for
scholastic research, the university needed to update its storage systems to add
capacity and flexibility.
After evaluating several vendor solutions, CSUMB chose the
next-generation HP P6000 EVA, based on HP Converged Infrastructure, as the
storage backbone for its new, virtualized data center. Now CSUMB consolidates
application data to reduce administration time and TCO, while
increasing the university’s storage utilization by as much as 50 percent as it
virtualizes data across disparate departments.
"CSUMB professors and staff need information access around the
clock," said Steve Mann, associate director, Network Services, California
State University, Monterey Bay. "The scalability of the HP P6000 EVA will
enable us to cost-effectively support the capacity demands generated by our
current and future graduating classes."
The midrange HP P6000 EVA provides CSUMB with improved ROI
by reducing maintenance and administration time. Integrated thin provisioning
delivers cost savings with the flexibility to purchase disk capacity only when
needed.
HP
P6000 EVA enabled CSUMB to:
- Improve disaster recovery services by moving storage from one array
to another while maintaining data in the event of a failure. - Enhance business efficiencies with integration into
existing business applications and VMware virtual server environments. - Reduce carbon footprint and lower energy usage by 40 percent, with
twice the enterprise capacity in the same rack space versus previous generations
of the EVA.
"Public universities struggle with managing increasing data
growth on flat or decreasing IT budgets," said Chris Riley, vice
president, Americas, Storage, HP. "The HP P6000 EVA’s simplicity,
scalability and cost efficiencies allow CSUMB to affordably upgrade its data
center with the latest virtualization functionalities while minimizing future
investments."