posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 8:51 AM
Customer: Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Vertical: Education
F5 Solution: LTM & iRules
Partners: Dell, VMware, Oracle, Microsoft, Blackboard
The BIG‑IP devices … have been very reliable and have freed my time to focus on other systems, and to drive our strategic initiatives—such as virtualization—forward.”
- James Duncan, Senior Systems Administrator, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Business Challenges:
The Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning provides education in the visual and performing arts, business, community services, and technical fields. A leader in integrating mobile computing in education, Sheridan’s sophisticated infrastructure includes a learning management system and many enterprise and course-specific applications.
To best support this environment (which also includes an innovative emergency notification system), the college implemented F5 BIG‑IP Application Delivery Networking devices. With the solution, Sheridan has improved performance and safety for students and staff, simplified administration, and ensured that its infrastructure can keep pace with its steady growth.
Benefits:
- Achieves better business intelligence and results by being able to accommodate departmental needs on the fly
- Improves performance and stability for students, faculty and staff during traffic spikes like student registration
- Provides high scalability and efficiency especially in its virtualized environment.
- Reduces data center costs through consolidation
- Easy to use allowing IT to manage other critical systems and Security to focus on the safety needs of the students and staff
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