Customer Case Study
Indiana University
9/15/2009
University Improves Service Availability, Reduces IT Workload with Virtualization
Indiana University is a nine-campus, US college system that serves 100,000 students annually. To reduce server sprawl and increase server availability, the school's Auxillary Information Technology Department (AIT) implemented Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ technology to virtualize its Microsoft and Red Hat Linux servers. The AIT is now realizing increased server availability, reduced hardware costs, and improved performance.
Industry: Higher Education Institutions
Size: Large, 11000 employees
Country: US  US

Customer Profile
http://www.indiana.edu/
Indiana University (IU) is a nine-campus system that serves 100,000 students annually. More than 50 percent of Indiana's physicians, 35 percent of teachers, and 75 percent of lawyers are IU graduates.
Business Situation
The Auxiliary Information Technology (AIT) department was deluged with new-service requests and servers. AIT wanted to reduce server sprawl and setup work, and increase server availability.
Solution
AIT uses Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ technology and Microsoft® System Center solutions to reduce servers using clustered virtual machines and simplify server management.
Benefit
  • Increased server availability
  • Reduced server provisioning
  • Faster new-service rollout
  • Reduced hardware costs
  • Improved application performance
Software
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
  • Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
  • Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007
  • Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Quote
"We deploy about 20 servers a year, so that's a time savings of about 180 hours each year. At a wage of $50 an hour, that's an annual savings of $9,000 in setup costs alone."
Janssen Jones, Associate Director, Auxiliary Information Technology Infrastructure, Indiana University