Smart People In Pittsburgh

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The smart people at the University of Pittsburgh manage five campuses and over 33,000 students, andneeded to create an enterprise storage solution that would give it three key benefits. Of course, they turnedto IBM, the number one overall storage hardware vendor, to deliver.

• A new storage infrastructure with the capacity to grow with the University of Pittsburgh as needed
• Improved system reliability with reduced downtime, and availability 24/7/365
• A significantly more manageable storage solution that could lower costs and provide better system efficiency through virtualization

Here is what Jinx Walton, Director of Computing Services and Systems Development at the University of Pittsburgh, had to say about it...

"The University of Pittsburgh supports large enterprise systems, and the number and complexity of new systems continue to grow. To effectively manage these systems it was necessary to identify an enterprise storage solution that would leverage our existing investments in storage, make allocation of storage flexible and responsive to project needs, provide centralized management, and offer the reliability and stability we require. The integrated IBM storage solution met these requirements"

You can read the details in the official IBM press release.

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