Green Data Center Will Enable UniMAP To Slash OpEx While Turbocharging Digital Service Delivery And Boosting Research Capabilities

Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) is building a new data center around Juniper Networks® MetaFabric™ architecture to help maintain its lead as the country’s top technical university. The new facility, due to be fully operational by February 2015, will enable UniMAP to dramatically reduce the environmental footprint and operational costs of its data center operations while enhancing service delivery to students, staff and external parties.

With around 6,000 students and more than 1,700 academic and non-academic staff, UniMAP has a strong focus on electronics-based engineering and related fields and is the hub of eight specialist research clusters. Ranked second overall among the country’s public universities by the Malaysian Qualifications agency, UniMAP believes that using the latest technology in classrooms, research labs, and administration helps to attract bright students, sought-after faculty members and increased research funding. The Juniper Networks QFabric® System being deployed within UniMAP’s new data center is the first in Malaysia.

• In accordance with the university’s Green Campus policy, the new data center has been designed for optimal operational and energy efficiency. As it uses far fewer devices than a conventional data center network, Juniper Networks QFabric System requires anywhere from 68% to 89% less power.
• Designed to support cloud data center operations, Juniper Networks QFabric will enable UniMAP to consolidate approximately 100 existing servers onto a few high-capacity blade servers that have been sized to run up to 200 virtual machines, thus delivering a further reduction in power consumption and space requirements to support exiting services.
• The QFX3000-M QFabric System provides scope for UniMAP to scale its data center operation to well over 30 times its current size. This data center headroom can be utilized by UniMAP for new e-services, teaching purposes, research using high-performance computing and even for the possibility of providing cloud hosting services to local government departments in the state of Perlis.
• UniMAP’s ICT Center currently offers more than 50 web-based systems to students and staff, several of which are already being offered as apps for Android mobile platforms. With average port-to-port latency of just 3 microseconds across the QFX3000-M, the new cloud data center infrastructure is expected to deliver considerably faster system response times and greater reliability on service delivery.

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