“We definitely see Lenovo as a strategic, long-term technology partner. We are already in the early planning stages of a number of potential new projects, including the construction of a brand-new disaster recovery cluster.”
At-a-Glance
- Customer: University of Minho
- Industry: Education
- Product Family: lenovo:product-group-and-series/L110056/L210089
- Region: Europe
- Topic: Big Data and Analytics,Cloud,Hyperconverged Infrastructure,IT Transformation ,Software Defined Infrastructure
The University of Minho modernizes a vital IT platform with a hyperconverged infrastructure solution from Lenovo, ActiveSys, and Acuutech
To deliver digital capabilities to staff, faculty, and students, the University of Minho relies on its IT systems—but its server and storage landscape was complex and costly to maintain. The university modernized its environment with an HCI solution based on Lenovo ThinkAgile MX650 V3 servers.
Customer Problem
With maintenance costs for its core IT infrastructure rising year on year, the University of Minho aimed to move its mission-critical applications to a modern IT platform.
Lenovo Solution
The university engaged Lenovo, ActiveSys and Acuutech to deploy its new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), built on Azure Stack HCI on Lenovo ThinkAgile MX650 V3 systems.
Business Impact
The university has boosted application performance for end users while keeping operational costs lean. With 1.4 million IOPS, the new platform accelerates backups by 66%—strengthening data resiliency.
“We are empowering our users with digital capabilities to help them teach, study, and drive research for years to come.”
Head of the data center team, University of Minho
Results
- · Eliminates app performance issues
- · 66% faster data backups
- · 66% reduction in data center footprint
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