Case Study: Swinburne University of Technology achieves scalable, cost-effective research storage with SUSE Enterprise Storage

Swinburne University of Technology - Customer Case Study

Swinburne University of Technology, a public university in Melbourne, needed more compute and storage capacity for growing research demands while staying within a tight budget. The university also wanted on-premises storage for its NeCTAR OpenStack-based research cloud, but public cloud options were constrained by latency and data-sharing restrictions, and a capacity-based storage model would have become too expensive. SUSE Enterprise Storage was used as the vendor’s software-defined storage solution.

Swinburne selected SUSE Enterprise Storage, implemented with help from SUSE Partner Aptira, and deployed two highly available clusters with replication between data centers. The result was a flexible, high-performing storage platform that scales easily on commodity hardware and supports research cloud and backup needs. SUSE helped Swinburne deliver on-premises storage at roughly half the cost of an equivalent public cloud service, while reducing CAPEX and avoiding costly hardware refresh cycles.

Swinburne University of Technology

Simon Naughton

Director of Infrastructure and Operations