MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Jan. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Chapman University, a private, not-for-profit university
located in the heart of Orange County,
Calif., is transforming its distinctive academic and student
experience with Pure Storage.
Since installing all-flash arrays from Pure Storage, students,
faculty and staff have faster access to the data and applications
they use regularly, software development teams complete their work
more quickly, and database administrators spend far less time on
storage management.
Chapman requires next-generation storage to optimize performance
and value. The university decided to upgrade its Tier-1 storage,
which supports Oracle's PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning
(ERP) applications and a BlackBoard Analytics data-warehouse, as
well as Microsoft and Oracle databases. The legacy environment
presented several challenges – primarily labor-intensive management
and a cumbersome process for the creation of cloned databases and
delivery to development teams.
Chapman University's IT team
installed and set up the Pure Storage arrays in an hour, a sharp
contrast to the days or sometimes even weeks required for legacy
systems. In addition, Pure's Evergreen™ storage model ensures
continued value and convenience with automatic, non-disruptive
upgrades. "The promise of the Evergreen program is that there is no
disruption and zero dollars wasted on every-three-year 'forklift'
upgrades. The fact that seamless upgrades are built in as part of
Evergreen is a big benefit," said James
Kelly, Storage Area Network (SAN) Administrator and Oracle
Database Administrator (DBA), Chapman
University.
With Pure Storage, Chapman
University expects to cut the time needed for routine
storage functions by up to 95 percent, and in the early stages, has
seen significant maintenance time reduction in existing database
and storage operations. The solution's high data reduction rates
allow automated and unlimited cloning of databases with virtually
no impact on storage capacity. Chapman can now clone a database in
just a few hours rather than a full business day or more, and
expects to reduce host cloning time to 30 minutes or less once it
completes its automation project.
"FlashArray delivers several important benefits to our
University. FlashArray is a powerful and resilient solution that
has accelerated our ability to deliver new and better services to
our constantly-changing campus community. The solution holds out
the promise of scale, as needed, without disruption, and lets us
count on the speed and reliability of flash for our diverse,
critical workloads. And, the purchase and implementation processes
were transparent and seamless," said Kelly.
Automation Fast Forward
Chapman has accelerated virtualization of its production
database servers thanks to the superior performance of Pure
Storage. Virtualization, in turn, is moving Chapman toward another
important goal – automation that reduces software development time
and improves team productivity. As important, the APIs between Pure
and other environments – such as VMware and Cisco UCS servers –
simplify system management and further advance the automation
process.
Chapman is also benefitting from the Pure arrays de-duplication
and compression features. "At the beginning, we weren't certain we
could put all of our production databases on the Pure arrays,"
Kelly said. "But we just kept adding more and more data until we
reached the point that everything we had was on Pure – and it was
still only at one-third of capacity. We have an overall
data-reduction ratio of 5.2:1, even better than promised. Pure's
deduplication functions are ideal for our database
environment."
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps customers build a better world
with data. The Pure Storage Data Platform, powered by all-flash
storage, offers a simpler, more effective, and more flexible
solution for cloud infrastructure and data-rich applications like
artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics.
With Satmetrix-certified NPS performance in the top 1% of B2B
companies, Pure has an ever-expanding range of customers who are
some of the happiest in the world.
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