Chico State Speeds Student Access to Resources with NetApp
May 04 2017 - 8:00AM
“With students demanding faster, real-time access to campus
resources from mobile devices, we needed a data management solution
that would keep pace, speed university operations, and stay within
the state budget,” said Ray Quinto, associate director of Computing
and Communications Services (CCSV) at California State University,
Chico. “After implementing the NetApp all-flash system, we saw
a significant increase in operational efficiency, which resulted in
happier students and employees, as well as a greener campus.”
California State University, Chico, has come a long way since
its inception in 1887 and opening its doors to 90 students as the
Chico Normal School in 1889. Today, the university commonly called
“Chico State” offers nearly 17,000 students more than 100
undergraduate majors and options. To accelerate operations, as well
as keep pace with their student’s burgeoning demand for social
media, mobile devices and campus services — while remaining within
budget constraints — Chico State implemented NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP)
All Flash FAS.
The university switched 80% of its servers to the NetApp
all-flash array in less than one week. As a result, Chico State
accelerated its admissions processing of 35,000 multi-page
application documents by 14 to 15 seconds per page, saving as much
as 200 business days every year. The administrators also found that
they could easily handle the influx of student housing requests
during “Black Friday,” processing all 2,000 applications without
downtime. Students, meanwhile, can easily access campus resources
and collaborate on assignments from any location by using their
mobile devices.
With the modernized infrastructure, Chico State IT team members
have significantly reduced the time that they spend in test
environments. Performance issues caused by the university’s
write-intensive workloads have disappeared. The university has also
benefited from NetApp support of its Oracle Real Application
Clusters (RAC) environment and has received large electric company
rebates for power savings in its virtualized data center.
With its new solution, Chico State can:
- Save up to 200 business days per year of administrator time
with faster document processing
- Double the speed of application and transcript request
processing by admissions staff
- Patch and reboot servers in seconds instead of minutes
More information:
- Read the Chico State case study.
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