1. Follett Higher Education
Business challenge
With volumes of data growing along with the company’s growth trajectory, how could Follett Higher Education keep its applications running smoothly to maintain excellent customer satisfaction?
Transformation
In the digital era, students, teachers and institutions expect convenient, reliable access to educational resources. To make sure its clients can access the resources they need, Follett Higher Education accelerated the performance of the applications powering its services by deploying ultra-fast flash storage from IBM in a hybrid cloud environment.
“With IBM solutions powering our storage, we are in great shape to keep delivering fast, convenient service to more customers as we build out new apps.”
—Sanjeev Singh, former CIO, Follett Corporation
Business benefits
>75%
improvement in system response times
80%
compression ratio stretches the value of capacity investments
Helps
IT staff easily manage storage infrastructure—boosting flexibility and scalability
Follett Higher Education
Provides quick, convenient access to educational resources for students and teachers
Solution components
IBM® DS8000®
IBM FlashSystem® A9000R
IBM Real-time Compression™
IBM SAN Volume Controller
IBM Spectrum Accelerate™
IBM Spectrum Storage™
IBM Spectrum Virtualize™
IBM Storwize® V7000
IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER® Deduplication Gateway
IBM XIV® Storage System
Client Name
Follett Higher Education
Company Background
For more than 140 years, Follett has been a trusted partner to Pre-K and K-12 schools, districts, and colleges, taking care of the critical details that make it easier for schools to run, teachers to teach, and students to learn. Follett is more than just a book company, it is a gateway to knowledge—harnessing its insights to help improve student outcomes and shape the future of education.
Business challenge
With volumes of data growing along with the company’s growth trajectory, how could Follett Higher Education keep its applications running smoothly to maintain excellent customer satisfaction?
Transformation
In the digital era, students, teachers and institutions expect convenient, reliable access to educational resources. To make sure its clients can access the resources they need, Follett Higher Education accelerated the performance of the applications powering its services by deploying ultra-fast flash storage from IBM in a hybrid cloud environment.
Results
Follett has improved system response times by over 75% with IBM flash storage, reduced power and cooling costs, and built a hybrid-cloud landscape to support its growth into new customer-facing apps.
Pull Quote
"“With IBM solutions powering our storage, we are in great shape to keep delivering fast, convenient service to more customers as we build out new apps.”
—Sanjeev Singh, former CIO, Follett Corporation
Case study Link
For more than 140 years, Follett has been a trusted partner to Pre-K and K-12 schools, districts, and colleges, taking care of the critical details that make it easier for schools to run, teachers to teach, and students to learn. Follett is more than just a book company, it is a gateway to knowledge—harnessing its insights to help improve student outcomes and shape the future of education.
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