e-learning tools, such as electronic whiteboards and web-based assessment systems, are powering today's educational environments. Today's researchers are engaging in more complicated and computing-intensive projects. To keep up with increasing data demands, education and research institutions are adapting advanced storage infrastructures. With today's budget cuts and limited staff, these institutions require a storage solution that is cost-effective without sacrificing the performance and reliability they need. Infortrend storage solutions deliver scalable performance and capacity, reliability, and simplified storage management.

Benefits

Infortrend solutions allow research and educational institutions to:
  1. Scale storage to meet current and future data demands
  2. Simplify storage management for learning activities and research programs
  3. Cost-effectively store increasing student records and research data
  4. Minimize learning or research obstacles
  5. Secure valuable information against storage logical and physical errors
  6. Accommodate explosive data growth without forklift upgrades
  7. Improve datacenter energy efficiency

Solutions

Infortrend solutions provide:
  1. Storage virtualization and thin provisioning. Consolidated storage capacity is utilized in the most efficient way and can be scaled on-demand without disrupting online applications.
  2. Centralized management platform. Various advanced functions can help IT managers easily configure, monitor and maintain multiple storage systems through a user-friendly GUI.
  3. Horizontal and vertical scalability. Users can increase system capacity and performance by connecting storage systems to expansion enclosures or adding additional systems to the existing storage pool.
  4. Storage-based snapshot and remote replication. After storage accidents, the differential and full copies can be used to support quick data recovery.
  5. Power-saving designs. Technologies such as intelligent multi-level drive spin-down, 80 PLUS-certified power supplies and dynamic cooling mechanism, are integrated to deliver best-of-class energy efficiency.
  6. Flexible drive choices. By intermixing high-performance and large-capacity drives, users can deploy storage tiers to cost-effectively support information with different levels of importance.