Chico State Gains Data Center Efficiencies, Trains Students on Today's Business Tools by Building on a NetApp Storage Foundation SUNNYVALE, Calif. - October 29, 2012 -When California State University, Chico, began running out of hosting capacity in their systems running SAP software for the SAP University Alliance program, a consortium of universities worldwide that use SAP applications to support classroom instruction, it was time to seek out a new architecture. Chico State needed to provide better access to more products to more schools so that a larger number of students could receive the training in business processes and enterprise systems technology they needed to prepare them for today's competitive job market.
With a donation from NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) worth more than $950,000, Chico State was able to build its hosting center on a cloud-based storage infrastructure that provided far greater capacity and a much-reduced energy footprint. As a result, the school has been able to reduce energy costs and space requirements while offering more students the opportunity to work with the market and technology leader in business management software.
Under the SAP University Alliance, Chico State and four other peer-hosting centers around the globe are able to teach their students accounting and business concepts using state-of-the-art, real-world technology in the classroom while providing the same experience for the students at other University Alliance member universities.
A member of the SAP University Alliance since 1996, Chico State began sharing its SAP expertise in 2000 by hosting other colleges. As the demand for hosting services grew, adding incrementally to a jumble of standalone servers and storage subsystems became increasingly unmanageable and was beginning to limit the program's reach. This required Chico to refresh its data center infrastructure to include a cloud storage foundation to increase overall data center efficiencies and securely store information from a growing number of schools on a single architecture. To address this challenge, the school partnered with NetApp to build a storage solution that would house the vital SAP software and serve as the backbone for its hosting center operation.
With NetApp's help, Chico State implemented a FlexPod architecture that enables multiple SAP products addressing different academic needs to be rolled out quickly to meet each school's specific requirements. Developed as a cloud infrastructure with NetApp as the storage foundation, Chico State has become a service provider for more than 140 schools in North and South America that are providing an SAP-enhanced education to 100,000 students per year. Leveraging the VCS NetApp plug-in to the VMware control panel, Chico State can now provision SAP clients for each university customer with ease while providing enhanced system performance and integrity.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Sager, chair, Department of Business Information Systems, California State University, Chico:
As one of the most well-known and respected learning institutions in the California State University system, Chico State has to ensure that its IT infrastructure is up to date to maintain the level of service we provide to our own students, faculty, and staff and those of the universities we serve. The SAP University Alliance Program provides a great opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience with the same software used in today's enterprise, better preparing them to enter the technology workforce. NetApp's donation helps us reach more students as the number of those enrolled in the program continues to grow.
Regina Kunkle, vice president, State and Local Government and Higher Education, NetApp:
Attracting more students into programs that will give them real experience for the competitive job market is one of NetApp's key goals. Better preparing students for real-world business applications is a great outcome for the school and for the community. Our technology allows Chico State to cut costs, reduce energy use, and provide a great benefit to its students.
Additional Details
Since installing the new system, the university has downsized computing hardware space by 80%, and the maximum power draw of the system means that there will be at least 60% power reduction and 70% less heat dissipation compared to the previous infrastructure.
With the new system in place, new university clients can be added quickly and seamlessly, giving faster turnaround so that more students have access to training on software that is so vital in today's business world.
Deduplication is also critically important, because storage demands are growing rapidly.
Additional Resources
Learn more about NetApp solutions for educational institutions: www.netapp.com/us/solutions/industry/education.html
Follow NetApp on Twitter: www.twitter.com/NetApp
Join NetApp on Facebook: www.facebook.com/NetApp
View NetApp videos on YouTube: www.youtube.com/NetAppTV
Connect with NetApp on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=111681
Discuss this news in the NetApp Community, where you can exchange thoughts and ideas on a variety of topics with our community members. Join now at www.netapp.com/us/communities.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
Press Contacts:
Dex Polizzi
Bluetext, LLC (on behalf of NetApp)
(201) 452-7424
dex@bluetext.com
NetApp, the NetApp logo, Go further, faster, and FlexPod are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of thei
Most recent headlines
06/10/2025
France T l visions, France's leading broadcaster, has received the 2025 EBU ...
04/09/2025
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE), in collaboration with Dalet, has been a...
30/08/2025
WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission has adopted its FY 2025 Regulatory Fees Order that establishes the regulatory fee rates for the broadcast stati...
29/08/2025
Australian Red Cross and SBS launch training to help workplaces in the fight aga...
29/08/2025
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sp...
29/08/2025
L3Harris Technologies has concentrated decades of expertise across the entire enterprise to develop affordable and reliable best-of-breed solutions to rapidly c...
29/08/2025
BURBANK, Calif. The CW Network and the Pac-12 Conference have announced a new media rights deal that will extend their broadcast partnership beginning with the ...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK Gracenote has released a new analysis of its global video dataset showing that the number of FAST channels grew nearly 14% from Q1 2025 and 76% since 2...
29/08/2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. Harmonic has announced a series of improvements to its live sports streaming solution that the company said will improve fan engagement, protec...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES Fox Corp. and YouTube TV last night announced a renewal of the full portfolio of Fox networks, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business...
29/08/2025
Budapest, Hungary, August 2025 - The integration of Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) with Lightware's Taurus universal matrix switchers delivers a new level of f...
29/08/2025
Frequency, the engine behind many of the world's best-known streaming television channels, today announced it will launch Studio Live, a next-generation uni...
29/08/2025
In an era when AI and cyber resilience are essential, Scality will mark the 10th anniversary of Scality Day on October 16, 2025 in Paris. This flagship global e...
29/08/2025
Disguise's In-House Creative and Technical Teams Pre-Visualised, Programmed and Delivered Content for the Experience, All Powered by EX 3+
Technology solu...
29/08/2025
Disguise will be demonstrating the latest workflows for TV, film and live events on a number of partner booths at the show
Disguise, the industry-leading tech...
29/08/2025
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Accedo will showcase Accedo Compose, its AI agent-powered modular orchestration layer that assists streaming providers in transitioning client...
29/08/2025
LOS ANGELES Cineverse has announced that it is working with Xperi to bring four of its streaming channels to automobiles for the first time as part of the DTS A...
29/08/2025
DALLAS & ATLANTA Gray Media has announced an agreement with the sports streaming service Victory+ to simulcast 17 Dallas Stars NHL games in 15 television market...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK AND CULVER CITY Comcast NBCUniversal and Amazon have announced new and extended distribution agreements that will expand the content available on their...
29/08/2025
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. RED Digital Cinema will feature its Cine-Broadcast Module supporting live broadcast workflows during IBC2025, Sept. 12-15, at the RAI Ams...
29/08/2025
29 Aug 2025
Kyivstar Rings Opening Bell at Nasdaq Marking Landmark Listing and ...
29/08/2025
More than half of all NFL games live on Sky for the first timeFriday 29 August 2025
Sky Sports has announced a new three-year deal with the NFL, extending its ...
29/08/2025
Back to All News
RIV4LRIES: The Trailer of the New Series With Samuele Carrino ...
29/08/2025
Get ready for an inspiring and emotional insight into the world of competitive Irish dancing with My Story: Tomi Champion of the World airing on RT 2 this monda...
29/08/2025
RT has today announced that David McCullagh is to be the new presenter of RT Radio 1's flagship Today programme, which airs every weekday at 10am, replaci...
28/08/2025
By Kristin Feeley, Director, Documentary Film & Artist Programs
If you want to tell untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got ...
28/08/2025
Directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, Sundance Institute-supported Amer...
28/08/2025
Corridos have been a cornerstone of M sica Mexicana for generations, telling stories rooted in everyday life. Now, a new chapter is taking shape: motivational c...
28/08/2025
Los corridos han sido un pilar de la M sica Mexicana durante generaciones, contando historias enraizadas en la vida cotidiana. Ahora, un nuevo cap tulo est tom...
28/08/2025
Earlier this month, we promised our Verano Forever party would bring the heat, a...
28/08/2025
L3Harris will provide the Polish F-16V fleet with the Viper Shield electronic warfare system as part of an upgrade program....
28/08/2025
Bilbao, August 26, 2025 - AgileTV, an international television and video technol...
28/08/2025
Ken Wilkinson is an Emmy Awards nominated New York audio engineer who specialises in production sound mixing for film, commercial, episodic and documentary work...
28/08/2025
NEW YORK FuboTV today announced that it will launch Fubo Sports, a skinny bundle that focuses on sports with a subscription price of $56 monthly....
28/08/2025
NEVADA City, Calif. At IBC2025, Sept. 12-15 at the RAI Amsterdam, Telestream will debut its new Global Ingest strategy, introducing a next-generation ingest arc...
28/08/2025
Dr. Rhoda Bernard Releases Groundbreaking Debut Book on Accessible Arts Educatio...
28/08/2025
TAG Video Systems, the leader in software-based IP end-to-end workflow monitoring, deep probing, and real-time visualization, has named Oliver Gappa as Sales Di...
28/08/2025
AI-based voice enhancement will be among a series of innovations making their IBC 2025 debut on the DHD stand B46 in Hall 8 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Cent...
28/08/2025
Telef nica Servicios Audiovisuales (TSA), the leading system integrator and service provider in the media sector in Spain, with the support of Appear, the globa...
28/08/2025
To fully immerse sailing fans in the world's biggest offshore yacht race, production company, Optical Media turned to LiveU's On-site Production solutio...
28/08/2025
Working with Calrec on its most recent overhaul, radio and television broadcaster, WNED has migrated to a fully IP infrastructure with multiple Type R consoles,...
28/08/2025
Cleeng, the Subscriber Retention Management (SRM ) inventor, has unveiled Cleeng Pro, the first-ever direct-to-consumer (D2C) subscription management platform t...
28/08/2025
Zixi, the industry leader in live broadcast-quality video over IP, today announced that French media distribution platform OKAST has selected Zixi to enable rel...
28/08/2025
Solution offers a streamlined, speaker-free architecture to optimize integration with premium external loudspeakers and advanced loudness metering
Nixer Pro Au...
28/08/2025
Cinegy, the premier provider of software-defined television technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Vision One Touch Film Production Services L.L...
28/08/2025
Telestream, a global leader in media workflow technologies, will debut its new Global Ingest strategy at IBC2025, introducing a next-generation ingest architect...
28/08/2025
Tier 1 operator selects Broadpeak to power high-performance, unified CDN solution across Norway, Sweden and Finland
Broadpeak, a leader in streaming and moneti...
28/08/2025
Leading video software provider, Synamedia, today announced that 24 Frames Digital, one of India's leading live event streaming service providers, has chose...
28/08/2025
Meet VisualOn at IBC2025: See What's Next in AI-Powered Video Streaming Join VisualOn at IBC2025 and discover how our AI-driven Optimizer and advanced media...
Chico State Gains Data Center Efficiencies, Trains Students on Today's Business Tools by Building on a NetApp Storage Foundation SUNNYVALE, Calif. - October 29, 2012 -When California State University, Chico, began running out of hosting capacity in their systems running SAP software for the SAP University Alliance program, a consortium of universities worldwide that use SAP applications to support classroom instruction, it was time to seek out a new architecture. Chico State needed to provide better access to more products to more schools so that a larger number of students could receive the training in business processes and enterprise systems technology they needed to prepare them for today's competitive job market.
