Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- With the launch of the SPE3C3 (Singapore
Polytechnic Electrical and Electronic Engineering Cloud Computing
Center) today, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) is the first educational
institute in Asia Pacific to equip its students with the latest
skills in cloud computing through an operational data center
environment.
Conceptualized by its School of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, the SPE3C3 will also provide teaching staff and
students in the school with on-demand, scalable, virtual computing
and storage in labs to enable more sophisticated projects and
research work. Singapore Polytechnic is utilizing the benefits of
cloud computing to realize cost savings, energy efficiency and
dynamic scalability.
The SPE3C3 was developed in collaboration with technology
industry leaders Cisco, Citrix Systems and NetApp. While the
resources will initially be available to the School of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering students anywhere on campus, it will be
accessible by all students on and outside of campus, as long as
they have internet access, in the near future.
"The new SPE3C3 shows Singapore Polytechnic's commitment to
innovation in education and the use of cutting edge technology to
provide its students with relevant and up-to-date training to
develop their skills in virtualization, enterprise and cloud
computing. Singapore Polytechnic graduates will be truly work-ready
in the cloud era and be able to contribute immediately to the
industry upon graduation," said Tan Hang Cheong, principal,
Singapore Polytechnic.
In the new academic year starting in April 2012, students in the
third year of the Diploma in Computer Engineering course at
Singapore Polytechnic's School of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering can look forward to two brand new elective modules --
Data Center Management and System Virtualization -- that will
harness the power of the SPE3C3. These new courses are designed to
educate and train students to setup, manage and support data
centers, virtualization techniques (including server, storage and
network virtualization) and data recovery.
Taking Education to New Heights SPE3C3 is
built on integrated cloud architecture from Cisco, Citrix and
NetApp. It is specially configured to support up to 31,000
Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPs), a first for the
education industry in Singapore. In another industry first, the
SPE3C3 can power up to 400 virtual machines, and more importantly
in relation to class duration, it can start-up and shut-down 240
server virtual machines in six minutes, 20 times faster than the
standard industry benchmark.
"Our main requirement for the new data center is its ability to
support the simultaneous start-up and shut-down of a large number
of computers in a short time. In our environment, this happens at
least five to six times in a day, at the start and end of each
class. We worked very closely with Citrix, as well as Cisco and
NetApp, to architect a solution that will achieve this for us,"
said Steven Chew Lai Keat, senior lecturer from Singapore
Polytechnic's School of Electrical & Electronic
Engineering.
The solutions implemented in SPE3C3 are powered by Cisco, Citrix
Systems and NetApp and will deliver a unified, pretested, and
validated shared infrastructure that caters to Singapore
Polytechnic's data center and desktop needs. The collaboration with
Cisco, Citrix and NetApp allows cloud access for teaching
resources, laboratory experiments, complex projects, lecture notes
and lesson materials -- extending the boundaries of the classroom.
This is particularly relevant for senior students who now have the
ability to learn about and utilize the latest, industry standard
technologies in cloud computing and storage resources for their
research or final-year projects.
During periods of low utilization like school holidays,
Singapore Polytechnic plans to use the SPE3C3 to provide students
with practical experience in the management and configuration of a
virtualized data center.
Industry-leading Technologies at
SPE3C3
Cisco The SPE3C3 has implementations that
build a network foundation for a next-generation unified fabric
data center. The modular Cisco Nexus® 7000 and 2000 Series Switches
deliver a highly resilient, high-performance and high-density
solution with 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 40G, and 100G for the data
center. the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™), the
industry's first converged data center platform, delivers smart,
programmable infrastructure that simplifies and speeds learning and
project applications and service deployment. In this
next-generation educational cloud computing data center platform,
model-based management, end-to-end provisioning, and migration
support come together to accelerate and simplify application
deployment with greater reliability and security. In addition,
Cisco® Adaptive Security Appliances integrate industry-leading
firewalls, VPN technology, intrusion prevention, content security,
and unified communications security, in a unified platform for
Singapore Polytechnic.
"Cloud computing is transforming the way technology is consumed
and provided and Singapore Polytechnic is pioneering its use in
education by being the first institute of higher learning in
Singapore to implement an educational cloud computing center. The
SPE3C3 is also a reaffirmation of Cisco's commitment over the last
ten years to Singapore Polytechnic to help them utilize technology
to enhance education," said Irving Tan, managing director for Asia
South at Cisco.
Citrix Citrix XenServer, a key component
of the SPE3C3's cloud computing and virtualization platform,
consolidates the data center's server workload, enabling up to 240
computers to be powered-up at once, with minimal interruption to
the system. The SPE3C3 has been optimized for Citrix XenDesktop, a
desktop virtualization solution that gives users on-demand mobile
access to their data anywhere and on any device. This
implementation is expected to take place in the next phase of
deployment and will allow the school to securely deliver individual
operating systems and applications to any device, with an
uncompromised high definition user experience driven by Citrix HDX
technology.
"Citrix is proud to play a defining role in the implementation
of the first operational cloud computing center in the Singapore
education sector. With mobility becoming a key requirement of a
holistic education experience in the cloud era, students and
lecturers from Singapore Polytechnic will be at a distinct
advantage, with their ability to easily and quickly access lecture
notes, assignments and teaching materials via any mobile device.
The potential for virtualization and mobility in the education
sector is vast. We anticipate this growing demand to positively
impact Citrix and our ecosystems and the future of education and
technology," said Yaj Malik, area vice president, ASEAN at Citrix
Systems.
NetApp The data center combines Citrix
XenDesktop on FlexPod™, a pretested data center solution built on a
flexible, scalable, shared infrastructure from Cisco Unified
Computing System servers and Cisco Nexus switches, and NetApp
unified storage systems running Data ONTAP. With systems
integration by PTC Systems, it is a shared infrastructure that can
scale easily and be optimized for a variety of mixed application
workloads that will to reduce operational risk and lower the total
cost of ownership. With a central management interface, FlexPod
reduces complexity for data center managers at Singapore
Polytechnic. In addition, data protection and disaster recovery is
built-in across the entire stack to ensure class continuity and
time to save data in case of interruptions at SPE3C3.
"As an institution of higher learning that prepares students to
embark on their careers, we applaud Singapore Polytechnic's vision
to equip students and staff with the latest knowledge and skills in
enterprise computing. The IT landscape has changed radically over
the past few years and with the new SPE3C3, students and staff get
a chance to experience the realities of IT today. More importantly,
as demand for storage increases, with more complex computing
projects and multimedia content, we are pleased to be able to
support Singapore Polytechnic's needs for a secure, efficient and
flexible shared infrastructure. NetApp's truly open-standards
approach has also delivered reduced storage costs for Singapore
Polytechnic," said Loh Ching Soo, general manager, Singapore,
NetApp.
PTC System To ensure that SPE3C3 runs
optimally, PTC System worked with Cisco, Citrix Systems and NetApp
to integrate all the components from each vendor in the data
center. PTC System also implemented a monitoring tool to manage the
services and performance of the different components to facilitate
an enhanced user experience for the students and staff.
"Virtualization and automation is the future of all data
centers. We are seeing strong interest from customers to achieve
greater efficiencies and to reduce cost via a flexible, secure and
scalable IT infrastructure. By embarking on this project, Singapore
Polytechnic shows their commitment to move IT to the next level,"
said SS Lim, managing director of PTC System.
About Singapore Polytechnic
(www.sp.edu.sg) Established in 1954 to
meet the manpower needs identified by the government, Singapore
Polytechnic (SP) is Singapore's first polytechnic. Its 10 academic
schools offer 49 full-time diploma courses for its 15,500 students
and courses are kept relevant through close links with industry and
government bodies, as well as with various overseas
institutions.
SP offers broad-based, multi-disciplinary and flexible
curriculum dedicated to hands-on experience. It is committed to the
development of its applied research and development capabilities to
enhance the quality of teaching and commercialisation efforts.
Through Design Thinking, SP offers a revolutionary approach to
education, allowing its students to look at problems from different
perspectives, and strike a dynamic balance between intuitive and
analytical thinking to provide impactful solutions. Among SP's
160,000 graduates are successful entrepreneurs, top executives in
multinational and public-listed corporations, and well-known
professionals, many of whom are captains of industries, university
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