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CampusEAI Consortium Upgrades CampusCloud with Cisco® Unified Computing System®1

 

Cleveland - January 3, 2012 - CampusEAI Consortium's has upgraded its CampusCloud platform with the Cisco® Unified Computing System® (UCS®).CampusCloud will utilize the Cisco® UCS®  to improve availability and performance.

The Cisco®  UCS®  is the industry's first converged data center platform. The Cisco® UCS® combines server network and storage access to create a distributed system that is easily managed from a single location. Utilizing the Cisco® UCS®,

all aspects of CampusCloudwill be improved, including: myCampus

  • State-of-the-art Cisco® UCS®  B-series blades, featuring Intel® Nahalem processors and 512 gigabytes of memory each for large data sets and more virtual machines per server
  • A unified networking solution with a low-latency, 10 Gigabit-per-second Ethernet foundation.
  • Improved system management through the Cisco® UCS®  Manager software, accessible through a common web browser.

CampusCloud is a 24x7x365 high-performance computer cluster, to eliminate up front capital expenditures, to reduce the utilization of the college's technical resources and to ensure high performance, availability, stability and security.CampusCloud features include:

  • Cloud-based Hosting in SAS 70 II and PCI Compliant Datacenters
  • Cisco®-powered Network, Cisco UCS®-powered Servers, VMware®-powered Virtualization, and NetApp®-powered Storage Area Networks (SAN)
  • Multi-homed, XO®, Global Crossing®, Level3®, AT&T® and Cogent®-powered Redundant Internet Connectivity
  • Comprehensive Symantec®-powered Backup and Recovery Operations
  • Application & Database Administration and Maintenance – a dedicated team of database engineers and administrators responsible for day-to-day maintenance and upgrades for business critical applications
  • 24x7x365 Network Operations Center staffed by a team of engineers monitoring business critical applications around the clock

CampusCloud is a 24x7x365 high-performance computer cluster, to eliminate up front capital expenditures, to reduce the utilization of the college's technical resources and to ensure high performance, availability, stability and security.CampusCloud features include:

  • Cloud-based Hosting in SAS 70 II and PCI Compliant Datacenters
  • Cisco®-powered Network, Cisco UCS®-powered Servers, VMware®-powered Virtualization, and NetApp®-powered Storage Area Networks (SAN)
  • Multi-homed, XO®, Global Crossing®, Level3®, AT&T® and Cogent®-powered Redundant Internet Connectivity
  • Comprehensive Symantec®-powered Backup and Recovery Operations
  • Application & Database Administration and Maintenance – a dedicated team of database engineers and administrators responsible for day-to-day maintenance and upgrades for business critical applications
  • 24x7x365 Network Operations Center staffed by a team of engineers monitoring business critical applications around the clock

Institutions utilizing CampusCloudpowered by Cisco® UCS®will have access to high-performance, off-site hosting and virtualization in order to:

  • Realize greatest return on their investment and achieve strategic and operational goals
  • Eliminate unplanned network downtime, outages and other performance issues with CampusEAI’s “best-in-class” service level agreements (SLAs).
  • Reduce stress, knowing its business critical applications will be consistently available to those who need it most – students, faculty and alumni.
  • Maintain highest performance, availability, stability and security over time to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Lower or eliminate initial capital requirements: CampusEAI will take care of all the equipment and provisioning costs.
  • Improve results and efficiency: CampusCloudallows institutions to focus their team on its areas of core strength and not infrastructure.

Institutions that already host their business critical applications with CampusEAI Consortium'sCampusCloud include:

  • Louisiana State University
  • California State University, Los Angeles
  • Florida State University

“We are pleased to upgrade to the Cisco® Unified Computing System® to power CampusCloud,” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. “The cutting-edge Cisco® hardware provides the secure, stable cloud performance colleges and and universities require to better serve their students, faculty, staff and alumni.”

About CampusEAI

CampusEAI Consortium is a global information technology services and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to the CampusEAI Consortium, including Florida State University, New Mexico State University, Louisiana State University, Brookdale Community College and University of Maine System. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org. .

 



1 CAMPUSEAI, THE CAMPUSEAI LOGO AND MY CAMPUS ARE TRADEMARKS OR REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF CAMPUSEAI. ALL OTHER TRADE NAMES ARE TRADEMARKES OR REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE HOLDER. CAMPUSEAI IS NOT A PARTNER, AFFILIATE NOR DOES AN AGENCY RELATIONSHIP EXIST BETWEEN CISCO®UCS® AND CAMPUSEAI. CAMPUSEAI DOES NOT DEVELOP, MARKET OR DISTRIBUTE CISCO®UCS®PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. CISCO®UCS® DOES NOT ENDORSE THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OF CAMPUSEAI. CAMPUSEAI DOES NOT ENDORSE THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OF CISCO®UCS®.
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