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Executive Summary

Company
  • Ottawa University
Industry
  • Education
Business Challenge
  • Need for Efficient Backups to Disk Solution
Solution
  • EMC CX3-20
Business Value
  • Efficient storage utilization
  • SAN snapshots that can be used for either backups or research and development


Ottawa University Partners with AOS to Solve Storage Needs

For more than 140 years, Ottawa University has been providing a high quality liberal arts education in a caring, Christ-centered community of grace. Ottawa University serves traditional-age college students as well as adult learners.

As one of the pioneers in adult education in the US, Ottawa University opened its first adult campus in Kansas City in 1974. Since that time, additional campuses focusing on the needs of working adults have been established in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Indiana, as well as multiple international locations.

Today, Ottawa University offers bachelor degree majors in more than 25 disciplines including math, sciences, fine arts, religion, education, and business.

Ottawa University’s drive to partner with AOS was based on their need to replace their existing storage infrastructure with something that was highly scalable and efficient in their critical environment.

AOS’ solution was an EMC SAN (Storage Area Network). This storage solution allows Ottawa University to take a “snapshot of their system which can in turn be used for backups or for research and development,” commented Janie Montgomery, Associate Director of IT.

“Having worked with AOS for a number of years, we can say with confidence that AOS has consistently demonstrated professionalism, sound expertise and timely project management in their many services to Ottawa University,” Janie said.

Janie further expounded on her experience with AOS. “AOS is a great company that has been wonderful to work with. They have always provided us with professional solutions and have been there for us when we needed someone to go the extra mile.

AOS’ experience working with Ottawa University has been tremendously successful. Janie and her team rresented to us the storage issues that were in front of them and it was clear that expansion of their storage
resources was imperative. AOS’ team of design engineers worked closely with the Ottawa team to develop an EMC solution that would handle the university’s storage needs now and well into the future.