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Washburn University
WASHBURN UNIVERSITY
Scoring top marks for student services.
Today’s digital-native students expect everything they need for their studies to be available at the click of a button. Supported by high-performance Lenovo hardware, Washburn University is making that a reality.
With high-performance, high-availability Lenovo ThinkSystem servers underpinning IT services, Washburn University is better placed to support students and staff – now and in the future.
Offerings: ThinkSystem
University of Southampton
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON -- Empowering researchers to sail ahead with a super-powerful Lenovo ThinkSystem supercomputer.
For scientists, engineers and academics in almost every discipline, high-performance computing (HPC) is playing an ever more central role in advancing human knowledge, empowering researchers to tackle tough challenges such as global warming and the rise of deadly superbugs.
POV/Focus: Sustainability
Offerings: ThinkSystem, Dist. Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale
Exeter College
With operations growing and student numbers continuing to rise, Exeter College’s existing IT infrastructure couldn’t keep up. The college migrated its mission-critical applications on virtual servers to Lenovo Flex System – a flexible, easily-scalable platform powered by Intel® Xeon® that delivers high levels of performance – ensuring that student services run uninterrupted even as demand rises.
Offerings: Flex System, Networking, Storage
Loras College
With hundreds of students and faculty members all trying to log on to Loras College’s systems at once every day, it’s little wonder its aging infrastructure couldn’t keep up. To boost performance and accelerate response times, the college deployed a software-defined infrastructure based on Lenovo System x3650 M5 servers and StorMagic SvSAN virtualization technology. Supported by the Lenovo solution, Loras College now delivers smooth, seamless IT services – helping to further students’ learning.
POV/Focus: Software defined storage
Offerings: System x, Flex System
Carlsbad School District
To make it quicker and easier for students to access educational resources, Carlsbad Municipal School District wanted to virtualize the desktops in its school computer labs. By replacing its aging IT infrastructure with a flexible and powerful Lenovo Flex System solution, the district gained the performance and scalability needed to support a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) – improving access to learning materials.
Offerings: Flex System, Networking