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CASE
STUDYEducation
July 7 2013
CASE
STUDYNetmagic SimpliCloud helps a leading educational university in India with an always-on, robust infrastructure solution
Education
The university supports distance education offerings of SMU Directorate of Distance Education (DDE) with close to 2 lakh students taking various courses. Much of the learning happens through a learning management system where students use an online portal to access their course programs which include course material as well as communication with faculty. This portal attracted high visitor traffic that peaked during the time when exam results are published online. With highly fluctuating bandwidth needs, the university’s IT infrastructure was at times overloaded and mostly underutilized the rest of the year. To overcome these challenges, the university needed:
A robust IT infrastructure that could be scaled up or down as per demand
Streamlining of existing infrastructure for optimum utilization
The ability to upgrade and downgrade bandwidth on the portal to meet fluctuating student traffic loads
A cost effective solution leading to low TCO and higher ROI
BUSINESS Scenario
Netmagic gave the university the ideal option in the form of its SimpliCloud solution. SimpliCloud provided the university the perfect utility computing model with a pay-as-you-use model that allowed it to pay for only what they used. Netmagic’s massive state of the art IT infrastructure provided as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enabled the university to upgrade its infrastructure when server and network loads were high and downgrade instantly when the peak time had passed. Along with this, Netmagic provided the university with a customized cloud computing package – a‘Fixed’ package for its regular bandwidth needs and a ‘Flexible’ package that can be scaled on demand to meet fluctuating portal traffic loads. With 24/7/365 support and back up, the university was assured of an industry leading uptime of 100% for its portal. Netmagic also offered the university its grid firewall protection to keep its portal, servers, networks, and applications safe from virtual threats like viruses and hackers.
CASE
STUDYThrough Netmagic’s comprehensive solution, the university was able to provide its students with an unparalleled always-on portal experience. With its IT infrastructure now optimally utilized, the university was able to greatly reduce costs, have better control on its bandwidth usage, and meet fluctuating server and network loads seamlessly. Its portal and applications are safe and secure, with near instant responses from Netmagic’s highly efficient support team.
The client is the educational arm of a large conglomerate with diversified businesses in India. With several educational institutions, programs, distance learning initiatives and other learning solutions under its aegis, the university is one of the large educational providers in India today.
CLIENT SOLUTIONS SNAPSHOT
KEY BENEFITS
With Netmagic SimpliCloud, the university was able to meet its demand for a flexible and always available infrastructure. Benefits included:
60% reduction in TCO and substantial increase in ROI
Increase or decrease bandwidth instantly as per requirement
Pay-by-use utility computing experience and cost savings
100% uptime and higher student user satisfaction
Round the clock back up, support and monitoring for higher security and performance
The university required an IT solution that could be easily scaled up or down as per requirements witha flexible bandwidth service that was available 24/7 on a pay-as-you-use model.
Netmagic proposed its SimpliCloud solution with the following features:
Elastic Plans with pay-as-you-use functionality for fluctuating portal traffic loads
Large Instances
Grid firewall protection
Burstable bandwidthINDUSTRY
Education
BUSINESS CASE
The university wanted to have a robust, high performance and an always available IT infrastructure management solution that was extremely flexible and could be upgraded instantaneously to meet peak requirements, especially during publication of results for examinations.
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Education
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About Netmagic Solutions (An NTT Communications Company)
Netmagic, an NTT Communications company, is India's only Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (DILM) Service DatacenterProvider. The company delivers services to Plan, Design, Manage, Support and Migrate IT Infrastructure running mission critical applications for over 1200 enterprises across the globe.
Netmagic has been a pioneer in the Indian IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service space and amongst the first to bring to market several services including (SimpliCloud), , , and Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud Managed Security DR-as-a-Service Cloud Object Storage (SimpliDrive).
Netmagic delivers services from 8 carrier-neutral, state-of-the-art datacenters located in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Noida (Delhi-NCR) and Chennai.
Netmagic Solutions is ISO 27001, ISO 9001:2008, ISO 20000-1 and SAP (Data center and Cloud Hosting) certified and its processes are designed as per the ITIL framework.
As part of the NTT Communications group, it also has access to leading global tier-1 IP network, Arcstar Universal OneTM VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and over 150 secure data centers.
For more information, log on to www.netmagicsolutions.com
About NTT Communications Corporation
NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including leading global tier-1 IP network, Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and over 150 secure data centers. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA