HP virtualizes storage for California State University

By eGov Innovation Editors | Feb 3, 2012

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California State University-Monterey Bay (CSUMB) has updated its storage system to HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA) to provide faster data access to students and faculty and to increase capacity in support of scholastic research applications.

HP said 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. However, with ongoing data growth and deployment of new applications for scholastic research, the university needed to add capacity and flexibility.

“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 HP P6000 EVA is also expected to improve disaster recovery services by moving storage from one array to another while maintaining valuable data in the event of a failure; enhance business efficiencies with seamless integration into existing business applications and VMware virtual server environments; and re educe 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.”