Going virtual cuts costs at Florida college

13.01.2006

Palm Beach Community College's virtual data center

-- Mainframe is connected to 10TB of storage on an IBM TotalStorage DS6800 array.

-- SAN Volume Controller virtualization appliance sits in front of DS6800.

-- SVC aggregates data from multiple disk storage systems into a single pool of centrally managed storage.

-- Two IBM eServer BladeCenter chassis servers connect to the SAN and support five different IBM Tivoli applications and various file and print functions previously run by 70 Dell servers.