Scope:
Goal of this project: To develop access point for university constitutents to request information about storage consolidation, get a cost proposal and ultimately paticipate in the ASU UTO storage consolidation services. This Web Site will supply the necessary information and allow interested parties to beginthe process to meet their storage consolidation needs.
The ASU UTO Storage Consolidation Services encompass the following:
UTO is consolidating disparate data storage environments from across the University into a small number of well-defined, fully-supported, high performance storage environments. This project will relieve many departments, colleges, and groups of the burdens involved with storage management and data protection, while providing standardized storage environments that are protected, backed up, and proactively managed. Some of the specific benefits of this project include:
- Consolidation of 28 storage systems in many different environments down to 14 systems in three distinct environments.
- All data moves to clustered-controller (high-availability) systems.
- UTO best practices employed across all storage systems.
- Disk-to-disk backup of all data now managed by UTO.
- Higher performance and scalability for data currently hosted on entry-level systems.
This consolidation project will immediately benefit departments and colleges with existing storage systems - many of which are aging and/or entry-level systems - by bringing them into a fully-supported UTO infrastructure. These departments and colleges include:
- W.P. Carey School of Business
- Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
- Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
- Department of Physics
- ASU West Campus
- Department of Health Professions
These colleges and departments, as well as others who continue to migrate into the UTO storage infrastructure, will recognize benefits including increased availability, performance, and scalability. In addition, this project will allow these colleges and departments, and ASU in general, to avoid almost $500,000 of maintenance costs, and will refresh storage technology across the enterprise.
