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Rhode Island School of Design
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Rhode Island School of Design has earned a worldwide reputation as the preeminent art and design college in the United States. Today, with more than 17,000 alumni, the school enrolls roughly 2200 undergraduates and 375 graduate students from the United States and almost 50 countries, offering degree programs in the fine arts, architecture, design disciplines and art education.
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Objective |
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Consolidate and expand storage capacity to meet the unique needs of key applications, art archive management, and the college’s strategic goals
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Approach |
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Unite storage arrays and heterogeneous servers onto a single HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array configured as a SAN—with a complete solution that included the HP-UX 11iv2 operating system running on an HP Integrity rx2620 Server
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Business technology improvements |
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- Consolidated storage management
- Scaled storage – without forklift upgrades – saving approximately $75,000
- Enhanced business technology infrastructure without staff increase
- Supports heterogeneous operating system environment
- Increases options for reciprocal disaster-recovery agreements
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Business outcomes |
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- Saved as much as $75,000 by upgrading HP SAN rather than forklift replacement
- Cost-effectively extended access to important library resources to further school mission
- Improved and expanded services without increasing staff
- Employed HP BladeSystem to help avoid cost of new or expanded data center
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