Case Study: St. Petersburg College achieves 99.9% availability and resilient cloud security with Fortinet

Multisite College Achieves Security and Resiliency in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

St. Petersburg College, a public institution serving about 31,000 students across 11 campuses in hurricane‑prone Florida, needed to ensure business continuity and protect its heavily customized PeopleSoft ERP from storm-related on‑premises failures. To modernize and simplify operations, the college moved its production environment to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for PeopleSoft compatibility, prebuilt shapes, and built‑in automation.

The college secured the OCI deployment with Fortinet—deploying FortiGate VM, FortiAnalyzer VM, FortiADC VM and FortiCare—to provide NGFW protection, application delivery, long‑term logging, and responsive support. The result: 99.9% application availability, full traffic visibility and reduced latency, five‑year log retention that supports a default‑deny policy, faster testing (saving ~20 staff hours per test and about $12,000/year), and quicker ticket resolution (from days to one day).

St. Petersburg College

David Creamer

Director Network Systems & TV Operations, St. Petersburg College