SANTA
CLARA, Calif., May 20, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that
delivers the world's most advanced data storage technologies and
services, announced that New Mexico State
University (NMSU), New
Mexico's land-grant institution and a comprehensive research
university, is leveraging Pure Storage's platform to drive
exceptional learning and teaching experiences for its 25,000+
student, faculty, and staff member population.
Customer Challenge:
NMSU, a renowned academic institution serving as a NASA
Space-Grant College and home to the first Honors College in
New Mexico, serves a diverse
student body across four campuses, a satellite learning center in
Albuquerque, and 12 agricultural
research and science centers. The University has quickly become a
vital stepping stone to success for countless students.
To further its commitment to delivering seamless student
services, NMSU recognized the need to modernize its IT environment
due to lagging performance, siloed operations, and excessive
administrative hours consumed by its complex legacy storage. By
replacing its outdated spinning disk storage with Pure Storage's
cutting-edge, all-flash portfolio, NMSU can now shift its focus to
ushering in a new era of efficiency and performance for its
community.
Customer Impact:
Adopting Pure Storage's comprehensive portfolio, NMSU gained a
powerful, cost-effective, and secure enterprise storage platform
that underpins exceptional services for every student, faculty, and
staff member. Benefits experienced with Pure Storage
include:
- Streamlined Storage Management with Non-Disruptive
Upgrades: With a Pure Storage Evergreen//Forever™ subscription,
NMSU can perform non-disruptive upgrades without buying new
hardware each year, reducing annual costs by 66%. Tasks like
virtual machine migration, once taking eight hours, now only
require 15 minutes. Anticipating over 100 hours saved per storage
upgrade, disruptive forklift processes are completely
eliminated.
- Improved Data Center Footprint: NMSU reduced its data
center footprint 14-fold (from 42U to 3U) in one data center site
and 12-fold (from 38U to 3U) in the other. In addition to reducing
its costs and power consumption, these efficiency gains enable NMSU
to easily relocate a secondary data center that is scheduled to be
demolished.
- High Performance, Reliable Storage Platform: Pure
Storage's platform powers NMSU's virtual desktop infrastructure,
ensuring reliable and efficient operations for learning labs and
counseling services (particularly for remote learning amid
Covid-19). Additionally, Pure Storage supports NMSU's
mission-critical ERP system, significantly reducing latency by 98%
to three milliseconds with over 55,000 daily writes.
- Enhanced Ransomware Protection: In response to the
rising menace of ransomware targeting academic institutions, NMSU
prioritized safeguarding sensitive data. To fortify security
measures, NMSU implemented SafeMode™Snapshots, ensuring enhanced
protection and positioning the institution for swift recovery in
the event of an attack.
Executive Insight:
"As a non-profit institution, Pure Storage's ability to reduce
our annual storage costs was the ultimate differentiator for the
storage platforms we were evaluating. Combined with non-disruptive
upgrades, secure, reliable infrastructure, and an improved data
center footprint, we knew we found the right solution. At NMSU, we
continue to innovate and drive better experiences for students each
day, and we are better positioned to do so with the performance and
peace of mind we get with Pure." - Omar
Valtierrez, Lead Systems Developer, NMSU
Learn More:
- Case Study: Helping Students Transform Their Place in the
World
About Pure Storage
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the industry's best platform to store, manage, and protect the
world's data. With a cloud experience across a unified storage
operating environment, Pure Storage empowers every organization
with the agility to meet evolving data requirements at speed and
scale, while reducing total cost of ownership. Pure believes it can
make a meaningful impact in reducing data center emissions
worldwide by providing a storage platform that enables customers to
significantly reduce their carbon and energy footprint. Pure is
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highest Net Promoter Score in the industry. For more information,
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