Case Study: Concordia University achieves 33% SAN reduction and stronger data protection with NTP Software

The Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University uses NTP Software to understand and protect their data

Concordia University’s Faculty of Arts and Science — a large, multi-department campus with roughly 200 faculty and thousands of students — faced rapidly growing file data on a VMware environment (five ESX hosts, 14 Windows 2008 guests) with limited SAN capacity. IT needed an easy way to understand who was storing what, prevent non‑school or oversized files and hazardous file types (e.g., .exe) from consuming storage, and avoid costly SAN upgrades.

They deployed NTP Software QFS at the VMware guest layer to monitor files in real time, enforce per‑user and per‑department policies, block risky file types and size limits, and paired this with LTO tape for backup. The solution delivered full visibility and control, halted data sprawl, made growth predictable with analytics, reduced SAN consumption by 33%, improved security, simplified management, and deferred additional SAN investment.

Concordia University

Mohamed Mohamed

Network and Server Administrator