Case Study: The University of Melbourne achieves increased capacity, faster performance and simplified management with Pure Storage

The University of Melbourne - Customer Case Study

The University of Melbourne, a leading Australian research university, faced a full tier-one SAN that was delaying virtual machine provisioning, hampering spikes in virtualization during enrollment and results periods, and creating complex, costly maintenance challenges. The IT team needed a scalable, space‑efficient storage solution that would simplify management and support ongoing growth.

They deployed two Pure Storage FlashArray//m50s (configured in a morning) to host the “gold” VM tier and repurposed legacy arrays for lower tiers. The all‑flash solution delivered immediate gains—deduplication and compression increased usable capacity, SQL workloads run up to three times faster, latencies fell below 1 ms, and cost per terabyte dropped by over 50%—while Pure1 simplified monitoring, reduced management overhead, and enabled faster rollout of new services with predictable maintenance costs.

The University of Melbourne

Drew Poynton

Manager of Storage, Servers and Backup