University Builds Platform for the Future Using HP BladeSystem

With around 30,000 students and 3,000 staff, Plymouth is one of the UK's largest universities. Plymouth wanted to provide a scalable, energy-efficient server and storage infrastructure without expanding the university's limited data center space. Plymouth Installed HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures with HP ProLiant BL685c Server Blades, virtualization software from VMware, and HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Arrays.