Infortrend Unified Storage, the Perfect Solution for Silesian University of Techonology’s GeCONil Virtualized Environment

Infortrend Unified Storage, the Perfect Solution for Silesian University of Techonology’s GeCONil Virtualized Environment

Silesian University of Technology is one of the oldest universities and biggest in Poland. It currently comprises 15 faculties offering 51 courses and 200 majors on every engineering area to its 25,000 students. As Silesian University of Technology’s newly opened Center for Scientific Calculations and Engineering, GeCONil was created to provide staff and students of the Faculty of Automatics, Electronics and Informatics with a dedicated research environment and information storage centre in which to carry out their projects smoothly.

GeCONil’s Storage Needs

In order to run the new center successfully, GeCONil needed a storage solution that would allow their scientists and students to store, process and share enormous amount of data quickly and efficiently.

The storage requirements were the following:

The Ultimate Infortrend Unified Storage Solution

Silesian University of Technology chose Infortrend unified storage as it brings true value to GeCONil. The 12 Infortrend unified storage systems deployed offered 10Gb/s iSCSI host interfaces, fulfilling their high performance demands for data processing and file sharing. Two extra expansion enclosures were deployed for capacity expansion as well. All systems were installed smoothly in its VMware and Microsoft environments.

Safe Data, Satisfied Customer, Great C/P Ratio

Through Infortrend storage systems, GeCONil has achieved the performance levels and efficiency it needed to carry out their data processing activities. SANSEC Poland - the system integrator mentioned that they offered Infortrend storage systems because of its superior performance and data integrity, great ROI and outstanding quality and comprehensive data security and backup functionalities.