Storage Solutions for Higher Education

Administrative services, e-learning, research applications and unlimited Internet access have become part of today’s open, accessible education environments and a competitive advantage for many.  Yet this accessibility requires more attention to security, safety, privacy and availability across physical and virtual environments—and the storage to meet these requirements can be costly and difficult to scale.

Isilon’s Scale-out storage platform, is simple to install, simple to manage and stays that way no matter how storage needs change in the future - ideal for budget-constrained colleges and universities.

Solutions for Academic & Administrative Departments

Whether a small college, major university or research facility, all institutions face the problem of building a scalable architecture based on open standards that allow a modular approach to both applications and content. Academic institutions also must effectively integrate e-learning environments into the campus computing infrastructure in a cost-effective way.  

Digital Libraries

Libraries are under-going significant change as they move even faster into the world of online, inter-connected repositories of the world's information. University libraries are no longer a place of dusty archives but provide instantly accessible information from other libraries, scholars, publishers, museums and public broadcasting. Libraries are also preserving media from performances, speeches and other data for future generations. 

HPC & Academic Research

Research teams around the world need to share and analyze data from next generation instruments such as gene sequencers and mass spectrometers. In research, speed-to-market is an essential component for getting, and staying, ahead of the competition and attracting more research funding. Isilon’s scale-out storage solutions, when combined with High Performance Computing (HPC), leverages compute, interconnect and storage power to help solve highly complex problems, perform research and computation-intensive analysis, or run computational-intensive workloads faster and more efficiently.

Media, Communications & Sports

From archiving practice and game tapes, to on-campus TV and radio, to university recruiting efforts, many universities have content creation, editing, delivery & archive needs that would equal any broadcast network. Isilon's rich solutions for broadcast and post-production, combined with the ability to scale "on-the-fly" make it an ideal solution for budget-constrained departments.

“The first thing that impressed me was just how fast the system came online. It took just a few hours to take the system out of the box, rack it, and deploy more than 100 terabytes of storage. By the end of the day Isilon was ready to serve data. It was incredible.” Cory Snavely, Director of Library IT Core Services at the University of Michigan