Case Study: Excelsior College Reduces Storage Management Costs with GSS Infotech NetApp Consolidation

Consolidation of DAS storage and NetApp Implementation

Excelsior College, a higher education institution serving working professionals, was facing high storage management costs and limited flexibility because its applications were spread across distributed direct-attached storage (DAS) across dozens of servers. GSS Infotech was brought in to help consolidate this fragmented environment and enable more scalable storage growth.

GSS Infotech implemented a unified storage architecture on NetApp, consolidating DAS silos into a centrally managed system integrated with VMware and supporting applications like SQL Server and SharePoint. The project improved backup and recovery, cut backup time from 30 hours to 3 minutes, reduced recovery time from 2 days to 20 minutes, and gave Excelsior College non-disruptive expansion capabilities for future growth.

Excelsior College