Resource Library
Recognising the value of information enables you to build an integrated and unified learning platform to facilitate decision making, increase efficiency and flexibility in education delivery.
“As students increasingly embrace and drive the digital age, the role ICT plays in enhancing the quality of the learning experience becomes increasingly important to the success of academic organisations. EMC recognise this and helps organisations improve the accessibility of their information assets whilst at the same time lowering the associated management costs and risks.”
Seb Fitzjohn – UK Area Manager – Education
As a member of the University and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA), and regular participant at the annual Education Conference, the EMC Education team commits itself to understanding the specific information needs of each Education Organisation. With a range of customers, education organisations must meet the needs of their students, staff and external partners. EMC offers a range of products and solutions which meet the needs of all these stakeholders. In August 2007 EMC were appointed as a nominated supplier of storage hardware, software and services under the terms of the National Server and Storage Agreement (NSSA). This allows EMC to not only be committed to providing the NSSA members with the widest range of information management solutions, but also allows us to offer them at the most competitive pricing available in the education and research sector. EMC has selected Dell, RM, Insight and Computacenter as our partners to operate under the NSSA.
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Consolidation
“The initial project focused mainly on centralisation and the avoidance of risk through creating an infrastructure of high-performance, resilient applications that could provide rapid storage provisioning. We’re now able to recover our entire e-learning applications within an hour from our mirror if the need arises. Our students need a reliable and consistent level of service so that they know their academic materials are available to them at all times. Losing our core applications during exam time would have been a disaster, but now we’re in a better position to get things running again much more quickly.”
Carl Stokes, CTO - City University
“EMC’s public sector knowledge and experience, the company’s global footprint, together with its masterful storage vision, made them the ideal choice for the University. It was the outright performance and resilience capabilities of the EMC products that convinced us we had made the right decision though.”
Tony Arnold, Deputy Head, Communications, Operations, and Systems – The University of Manchester
There is a continued need for Consolidation with some education organisations moving to next generation consolidation solutions. EMC has extensive knowledge and experience within the education sector which can provide you with a complete roadmap for continued consolidation.
Collaboration
“With the Virtual Seismic Atlas, based on the EMC Documentum platform, we can bring together the world’s geographical community and increase the collective understanding of our planet. We expect the benefits of a web-accessible, centralised knowledge management system of this scale to be far reaching.”
Robert Butler, Ph.D., Director of the Virtual Seismic Atlas
Education organisations need to collaborate internally, with other education organisations and with external bodies. EMC provides a variety of solutions which enable all necessary parties to collaborate and share information in a simple yet secure environment.
Solutions
“Our students and staff will win through the deployment of a secure, efficient information storage environment. The University will win through the cost savings arising from the consolidation of Web servers, Apache servers, Oracle and SQL databases and other systems.”
Alan Radley, Infrastructure Systems Development Manager
Education organisations have a duty to protect the personal information of all its members. It is also extremely important to protect intellectual property when it comes to research projects for external organisations. EMC’s solutions allow for a secure environment without compromising the end user experience.
EMC’s Enterprise content management solutions underpin everything Education Organisations need to do, and allow them to transform their IT Infrastructures to become truly efficient. Our solutions provide an integrated approach to virtualisation, consolidation, compliance, content management, data classification, business continuity, resource management and backup recovery and archiving.
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