KNRTU is the largest educational center of chemical and technological profile in the Russian Federation – the leader in the field of training highly qualified engineering personnel in the field of Chemical Technology. It implements more than 378 educational programs of higher, secondary, and additional education. KNRTU has received a high reputation and global recognition for its research activities conducting research in priority areas of science and technology development. For the production of pilot batches, technology development, and R&D commercialization, a Research and Production Park, consisting of business incubators, innovative areas, and a technology transfer center has been created. Today, KNRTU’s innovation infrastructure includes 38 small enterprises and 26 RECs with the country’s leading scientific and educational institutions.
In the past, KNRTU has been using several servers with directly attached storage as IT infrastructure hosting DSM (Document Management Software) to support the transition to electronic document flow (EDF). The implementation of EDF has significantly improved the efficiency of school administration but the exponential growth of data from document digitalization has made the upgrade and maintenance of siloed servers more complicated and costly. The IT team realized it’s time to move to centralized storage which is efficient, secured, and scalable to meet the future demand of petabyte-scale data pool. The constraint of the budget also pushed the team to conduct thorough market research to find the suitable storage solution to meet all these requirements.
The university KNRTU chose QSAN Unified Storage for its high performance and reliability, featuring built-in 10GbE and optional 25GbE connectivity, plus a dual-active design for continuous uptime. With WORM protection, data is immutable and secure against ransomware. Thanks to no drive vendor lock-in, the university can scale storage on demand with cost-effective drives, easing budget pressure. Two XN8024D units now power their databases and file storage, ensuring fast, secure, and efficient electronic document flow.
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