Bangkok--19 May--PC & Associates Consulting
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Bangkok University has implemented the EMC? CLARiiON? CX4-240 to help manage its growing digital information needs and achieve its e-university vision.
Bangkok University, a non-profit co-educational institution under the patronage of the Bangkok University Foundation, is one of the first and largest private universities in Thailand that functions as an academic collaboration center for academicians, experts and researchers.
The facility aims to provide a conducive environment to encourage the development and exchange of knowledge and information amongst local and international academicians.
“Intensive knowledge sharing amongst the university community has generated a tremendous amount of information that needs to be easily and conveniently stored, protected, managed and retrieved,” said Assistant Professor Somchit Likhittaworn, Department of Planning and Development at Bangkok University.
“With information at Bangkok University growing by more than 30% to 48 terabytes since 2006, we decided on the EMC CLARiiON CX4-240 storage solution for its performance and reliability to help us manage our information challenges.”
“With increasing number of students, teachers, content and other services each year, as well as a faster, better Internet connectivity, we have to ensure the availability, reliability, efficiency, scalability and security of our infrastructure,” said Professor Somchit, adding that “It is important that we balance our load sharing of all the digital information and access to content across our university campuses. Over the past 4 years, EMC has provided us with reliable and cost-effective solutions to our IT investment which is critical to Bangkok University’s continued success.”
“The EMC CLARiiON CX4-240 provides Bangkok University with a high-end business continuity and information management solution so that end-users have secure and seamless access to data and applications,” said Khun Thada Savetsila, EMC’s Country Manager for Thailand. “This greatly improves the level of service to the university community while helping the institution to significantly reduce costs and increase its return on investment.”
Bangkok University’s SAN management:
Student and teacher database Library VDO On Demand for both campuses E-Thesis and Dissertation eLearning and teaching content Database replication and backup Email File Server LMS All document management EMC CLARiiON CX4-240
The EMC CLARiiON CX4 series with UltraFlex? technology is based on a new, breakthrough architecture and extensive technological innovation, providing a midrange storage solution that delivers industry-leading application performance, and new levels of scalability, reliability, flexibility and affordability. It also includes new levels of ease of use, making the CX4 easy to install, manage and scale.
The EMC CLARiiON CX4-240 features up to 240 disk drives for a total capacity of 231 TB, 8 GB of system memory and up to 12 Fibre Channel and/or 12 iSCSI ports. The system gives organizations a powerful networked storage system that scales seamlessly so customers can consolidate more applications. The EMC CLARiiON CX4-240 combines CLARiiON 99.999 percent availability with innovative technologies such as virtual provisioning, 64-bit operating system, and multi-core processors.
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