IE Business School optimiza su CPD con la plataforma Cisco UCS

The IE Business School has a new data processing center with Cisco technology that allows it to optimize its critical applications and address other types of solutions that require large network capacities such as HD videoconferencing., e-learning o campus virtual.

The IE Business School has renewed its Data Processing Center (CPD), located in Madrid, with the platform Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), which has allowed it to simplify and centralize its management, optimize the performance of critical applications and support high-bandwidth solutions such as virtual campus, voice over IP, HD video conferencing, e-learning, digital library, virtual desktop or storage on SAN networks.

IE Business School is an international business school dedicated to training the business elite with a global focus., entrepreneurial character and humanistic spirit. European leader in the ranking of business schools, according to Financial Times and Businessweek, It has a faculty made up of more than 500 teachers who teach classes to students over 90 countries in university degrees, master programs, doctorate and executive training.

Due to its growth and international projection, The entity decided to renew its technological infrastructure by adopting a new generation data center that would allow it to obtain greater efficiency to respond to business needs..

After evaluating various proposals, IE Selected Cisco Unified Computing System Servers (UCS), that allow computing to be unified, the networks, storage access and virtualization in the same integrated architecture. The company has deployed eight UCS B200 blade devices in a single chassis equipped with Unified Fabric technology, reducing wiring and the number of components by more than one 50% and unifying local network transport and storage (LAN and SAN) about the FCoE protocol (Fiber Channel over Ethernet).

This architecture is completed with virtualization software VMware and storage cabins Hitachi, which, together with the unified management provided by the Cisco UCS Manager software, have made it easier for IE to deploy more than 100 virtual machines.

With this implementation, IE has managed to consolidate and virtualize its servers, unify local networks and storage, and simplify administration.

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Cisco has also been in charge of deploying a high-density WiFi network on IE's Madrid campus, composed of about 200 802.11n access points with its CleanAir technology to avoid wireless interference and offers service to 3.000 concurrent users.

All these solutions help IE Business School simplify and centralize its management, optimize the performance of business-critical applications and support the exponential growth of users and high-performance applications that require greater network capacity now and in the future, as virtual campus, voice over IP, HD video conferencing, e-learning, digital library, virtual desktop or storage on SAN networks.

Anadat Consulting, premier partner de Cisco, has carried out the full cycle of consulting services, engineering, evidence, implementation and support of Cisco UCS servers.

With this solution, it has managed to save costs and time to improve its daily operations and deploy new services and applications..