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BANGALORE: The Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Texas (UT) have selected NetApp unified storage solutions to aid data management.
"ASU and UT are using NetApp storage in very different and innovative ways that have attracted interest far beyond their campus borders for instance, the Arizona Department of Education is partnering with ASU to leverage its technology and approach," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Partners at Network Appliance, in a statement.
Early last month, ASU announced the availability of IDEAL (Integrated Data to Enhance Arizona's Learning), a joint effort between the Arizona Department of Education and ASU to provide more than one million students and 58,000 certified teachers access to educational data, resources, and services to increase student learning. IDEAL leverages NetApp FAS3020 and other storage systems armed with double-parity RAID (RAID-DP) protection to improve performance and uptime. NetApp Data ONTAP 7G software with FlexVol technology is used to maximize storage utilization.
The University of Texas libraries are focused on systematically storing and preserving cultural and historical records while also maintaining a federal repository of government documents.
UTOPIA is an ambitious initiative designed to open UT's doors of knowledge, research, and information to the public and break down the physical boundaries of learning, research, and scholarly discourse.
To meet the exponential amount of data created from the UTOPIA project, UT's IT team chose NetApp to support its digital library. Since UT embarked on this project nearly five years ago, the UT digital library project's storage requirements have nearly doubled annually. "UTOPIA currently receives over three million hits from users in over 90 countries every month," said Mark McFarland, assistant director for the University of Texas Libraries. "Files from our U.S. government PCL map collection, for example, are downloaded millions of times a month", he added.
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