Going virtual cuts costs at Florida college - Reduced workload and easier management

http://www.techworld.com/networking/features/index.cfm?featureid=2179

By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
Palm Beach Community College is going virtual: virtual servers, virtual network and virtual storage.
The college, which has 49,000 students and 2,000 employees, has nearly completed the roll-out of a server and storage consolidation project that will eventually replace scores of servers with a new mainframe and two blade systems.

Though not yet complete, the $1.6 million project has already allowed the school to reallocate its 60-person IT staff and cut data backups from 24 hours to just five hours.

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