Case Study: McGill University achieves petabyte-scale storage and disaster recovery with iXsystems TrueNAS

McGill University halves storage cost per gigabyte with iXsystems

McGill University's School of Computer Science needed a centralized, scalable solution to manage petabytes of data for its research projects while staying within budget. They sought an enterprise-grade storage array that could replace their in-house Linux and BSD servers. After researching vendors like Dell and Oracle, they chose iXsystems and its TrueNAS storage array due to its open-source foundation, ZFS data integrity features, and lower cost.

iXsystems implemented a TrueNAS solution that provided high-capacity backend storage with replication and high availability. The solution drastically reduced administrative overhead and potential points of failure. McGill achieved petabytes of usable storage, utilizes snapshots and replication for disaster recovery, and has never lost any data throughout multiple expansions. iXsystems' dedicated support and the stability of TrueNAS have been critical to supporting the university's important research data.

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