Case Study: University of Nagasaki achieves faster recovery and improved availability with Cisco HyperFlex

Japanese university adopts new hyperconverged infrastructure

The University of Nagasaki, which opened Japan’s first Information Security Department to train frontline cybersecurity technicians, faced frequent lightning-induced power outages that made restarting separate servers and storage take several hours. Seeking better availability, faster recovery and lower total cost while meeting performance needs, the university evaluated hyperconverged options and selected the Cisco HyperFlex system.

Cisco HyperFlex was deployed to consolidate compute, storage and management into a single, hyperconverged platform with flexible CPU, memory and storage sizing and integrated management tools. The result was a dramatic reduction in restart time (all virtual machines now boot in approximately 20 minutes versus several hours), simplified operations, fewer physical devices, lower virtualization license costs, improved availability, and a scalable environment used for both university infrastructure and hands‑on security courses.

University of Nagasaki

Ayako Komatsu

Professor, Department of Information Security