Australia's Oldest University Aims for Excellence With New Data Center Architecture

The University of Sydney, founded in 1850, is Australia's first university, and has an international reputation for outstanding teaching, as a center of research excellence and as an active and engaged community leader. Sydney University wanted to increase network bandwidth and capacity in new data center and unify storage and network into a scalable architecture. The challenge was to improve management of physical and virtual server environment. Sydney University deployed Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches.