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Times-QS World Ranked Universities Go Green with VMware
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June 24, 2008

Times-QS World Ranked Universities Go Green with VMware

By Nathesh
TMCnet Contributor

Universities that were rated high on the Times-QS World University Rankings are installing VMware virtualization solutions to minimize capital and operating costs, maximize application and system uptime, reduce power consumption and enhance disaster preparedness, a statement from VMware Inc said.

 
VMware provides virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter.
 
Harvard and Cambridge, the prestigious institutions which were ranked on the top of the Times-QS rank list have deployed VMware solutions. Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Purdue, the University of Maryland, the University of Auckland, and the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Los Angeles and San Diego are the other universities that are also on the list.
 
CollegeNET and the Blackboard Academic Suite in VMware virtualized environments are the apps that are widely used around the world by renowned universities and schools, claims VMware.
 
Bowdoin College in Maine is going to construct a co-located datacenter for cross-country disaster recovery along with Los Angeles-based Loyola Marymount University. They have virtualized 70 percent of their environments and that has saved them $15,000 in annual server maintenance and has avoided $500,000 in hardware costs. They are running over 100 virtual machines now.
 
"If you are using VMware technology in production, you are two-thirds of the way to a robust disaster-recovery plan before you even begin to design it," said Tim Antonowicz, senior systems engineer at Bowdoin. "You get portable servers with flexible hardware requirements and ease of management. Capabilities in VMware Infrastructure 3, like Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and High Availability (HA), for instance, let you take advantage of resource pools and dynamically move virtual machines as needs change. Bowdoin has a VMware-first policy for any new system – not only because of the disaster-recovery benefits of VMware virtualization, but also because of the other cost savings and efficiencies that VMware software enables."
 
Similarly Sheffield Hallam University and Ohio State University have also deployed VMware and they report that the VMware technology has proved itself time and time again and is revolutionizing the way they deliver services.
 
The benefits such as hardware consolidation, resource aggregation and increased automation make virtualization ideal for colleges and universities who want to cut costs, improve availability and resiliency, and optimize efficiency of IT personal. So VMware states that it is not a surprise to note the higher educational institutions were the firsts to endorse compelling profit of virtualization.
 
The education sector continues to be a high priority for VMware, with 900 universities and colleges in its customer roster, including Curtin University of Technology, Dominican University of California, Faith Baptist Bible College, Georgian College, Hackensack University Medical, Hull College, Indiana University, Manukau Institute of Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology (News - Alert), and Ryerson. So for them, VMware says it has created an online community to answer questions and foster communication about overall IT best practices for their peers. In addition to experts’ opinion, this community includes dozens of case studies to help understand how others have made VMware a critical element in their infrastructure. For more information please visit www.vmware.com
 
Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh’s articles, please visit his columnist page.


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