Case Study: Mississippi Community College Board achieves faster, more reliable online enrollment and simplified IT management with Pure Storage

FlashStack Aces All its Tests at Mississippi Community College Board

The Mississippi Community College Board (MCCB), which provides centralized IT services for 15 public community colleges and more than 70,000 students, faced a critical infrastructure challenge: an early converged-storage system that was complex to manage, delivered poor performance during peak registration periods, and had maintenance costs set to more than double (from $48,000 to $110,000). These issues strained IT staff and threatened student access to the online enrollment application when demand was highest.

MCCB replaced the legacy stack with a FlashStack converged solution (Pure Storage FlashArray, Cisco UCS and Nexus switches, and VMware), installed rapidly with no production downtime. The new platform delivered faster enrollment performance, simplified management, improved disaster-recovery testing, a 3.8:1 data-reduction rate, reduced footprint and lower TCO—freeing IT to roll out features faster and focus on improving the learning environment.

Mississippi Community College Board

Ray Smith

Assistant Executive Director for Technology