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Higher Education Institution in Need of Architecture Redesign to Support Network Growth

公司规模

1,000+

地区

America

国家

United States

产品

A10 ADC
ACOS
aVCS

技术栈

Virtualization
SSL Offload
Symmetrical Multiprocessing

实施规模

Enterprise-wide Deployment

影响指标

Cost Savings
Customer Satisfaction
Productivity Improvements

技术

分析与建模 - 预测分析
功能应用 - 企业资源规划系统 (ERP)
网络与连接 - 网络管理和分析软件

适用行业

教育

适用功能

商业运营
设施管理

服务

云规划/设计/实施服务
系统集成

关于客户

Established in 1927, St. Petersburg College is recognized as Florida’s first two-year institution of higher education. Currently, the college is a fully accredited multi-campus institution with campuses across St. Petersburg’s county spanning from Clearwater, Tarpon Springs, Pinellas Park, Largo, and Seminole. Over 63,000 students a year achieve their educational goals through St. Petersburg College, including students that reside in many countries across the globe. St. Petersburg College prides itself in decades of academic and community investment. Enrollment at St. Petersburg College has increased each year since 2000. And for the last four years consecutively, St. Petersburg College has been designated Florida’s leader in distance learning, ranking number one in both the number of courses offered and the number of students enrolled. Notable alumni include NASA astronauts Nicole Stott and Samuel Durrance; Bob Carroll, writer and creator of the celebrated “I Love Lucy” television show; and famed rock musician Jim Morrison of The Doors. St. Petersburg College’s network hosts approximately 3,000 staff and faculty members, in addition to the 32,000 students enrolled in online classes each semester alone.

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挑战

As the college grew rapidly, expanding globally with additional students, its incumbent IT infrastructure suffered, unable to meet the challenges brought by this growth. St. Petersburg College needed an advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC) with multi-tenancy features in order to manage the diverse and rapidly increasing plethora of applications, spanning from classroom campus-wide applications such as Blackboard Learn+ to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software such as Oracle PeopleSoft, in addition to Microsoft applications such as SharePoint, Lync and Exchange. St. Petersburg College’s major concern was to find a platform that could accommodate growth and significantly increase data center bandwidth. The solution needed to run efficiently and flawlessly, with no traffic impact during failover.

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解决方案

A10 was chosen over the incumbent vendor, F5 Networks, due to the flexibility of A10 ADCs. St. Petersburg College established the A10 ADC as a proven virtualization solution that could fulfill the requirements of high density and high performance while delivering on flexibility and reliability. A10 ADCs provide high-performance multi-tenancy functionality with faster client response times, while reducing the escalating costs of deploying ADCs utilizing Application Delivery Partitions (ADPs). Key differentiators A10 ADCs provided St. Petersburg College include flexible virtualization, superior high availability, enhanced performance, advanced SSL offload, usability advantages, and cost reduction. A10 ADCs’ scalable symmetrical multiprocessing (SSMP) architecture allows traffic to utilize multiple CPUs without latency or blocking; applications run exponentially faster, especially during peak usage times. A10 ADCs’ Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS®) defines a new generation of ADCs with greater performance, and the greatest performance per Watt (PPW), making A10 ADCs the most flexible, scalable, and energy-efficient solution on the market today.

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运营影响

Flexible Virtualization: St. Petersburg College utilizes A10 ADCs’ multi-tenancy feature to consolidate its numerous application environments onto the A10 ADC appliances. Through virtualized ADPs, A10 ADCs can deliver more than a hundred instances, consolidating servers to virtual platforms, for overall efficiency and flexibility; this provides the industry’s highest performance multi-tenancy solution. Beyond A10 ADCs’ ADP technology, A10 ADCs’ virtualization options include the Virtual Chassis System (aVCS®) for scalability.
Superior High Availability (HA): With an increase in enrollment, St. Petersburg College’s utmost priority for its new deployment was to focus on optimizing the end-user experience for its diverse user population of students and faculty members. Absolutely no downtime was tolerable; to meet this stringent requirement, stateful HA is used to provide sub-second failover and session synchronization between A10 ADC appliances. This ensures continuous connectivity for an enhanced and reliable end-user experience online. Furthermore, when network maintenance is performed, there is no impact to the end-user; the process is always transparent and hitless.
Enhanced Performance: A10 ADCs’ scalable symmetrical multiprocessing (SSMP) architecture allows traffic to utilize multiple CPUs without latency or blocking; applications run exponentially faster, especially during peak usage times. A10 ADCs’ Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS®) defines a new generation of ADCs with greater performance, and the greatest performance per Watt (PPW), making A10 ADCs the most flexible, scalable, and energy-efficient solution on the market today.
Advanced SSL Offload: A10 ADCs use dedicated SSL ASIC processors to relieve server hardware of the burden of managing CPU-intensive SSL traffic. Processing SSL traffic on A10 ADC appliances seamlessly increases transaction speeds, decreases server hardware requirements, and provides ease of administration.
Usability Advantages: A10 ADCs’ intuitive web-based GUI, offers an effective industry-standard CLI, providing St. Petersburg College IT engineers with flexible management options and seamless deployment. A10 ADCs’ wide range of active monitoring capabilities enables administrators to effectively observe activities, and also provides detailed reporting. Furthermore, A10 ADCs provide administrative resources that give granular access with role-based access control.

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数量效益

Over 63,000 students a year achieve their educational goals through St. Petersburg College.
St. Petersburg College’s network hosts approximately 3,000 staff and faculty members.
32,000 students enrolled in online classes each semester alone.

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