Case Study: University of Pisa achieves consolidated, highly available and secure data centers with VMware

The University of Pisa Focuses on Virtualization for Sustainable Growth of the Data Center

The University of Pisa, a historic higher-education institution serving roughly 3,000 staff and 50,000 students, needed to modernize a fragmented, department-level IT landscape built largely on open-source systems. Faced with complexity, security and maintenance challenges, the university sought to consolidate multiple data centers, improve reliability and performance, and make its educational and administrative services more competitive and easier to manage.

Using CONSIP procurement, Dell hardware and partner Assyrus, the university built a software-defined, multi-site data center based on VMware virtualization and vSAN, consolidating into three production sites plus one R&D site. The hyperconverged architecture delivered higher availability, greater compute and storage efficiency, built-in disaster recovery, reduced management costs, and more flexible, secure services for students, faculty and staff — while giving IT teams modern tools and skills.

University of Pisa

Maurizio Davini

Chief Technology Officer