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Esteem enhances learning at Strathclyde University

Hi-Tech Scotland Reporter | Monday February 04, 2008

The University of Strathclyde is enhancing its learning environment with an infrastructure overhaul from IT lifecycle specialists, Esteem Systems. The new platform will significantly reduce maintenance cost and carbon footprint, as well as provide flexible access to information and applications, enabling the University to best support the growing numbers of distance learning students.

The new infrastructure from Esteem, will be crucial to modernising learning resources, benefiting the University of Strathclyde’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), as well as business management and performance in areas such as the library, finance, HR, staff portal and student records. Vital to making the University of Strathclyde a 24/7 educational establishment will be the two data centres in different campus locations, providing asynchronous and near real time replication and back up facilities with no single point of failure.

Server hardware from Sun Microsystems will provide faster, more reliable and robust services with reduced energy consumption and cooling requirements, also reducing the University’s carbon footprint. Integration onto the new Storage Area Network (SAN) will provide a standard disk architecture which will lower maintenance costs and greatly improve performance.

Dr Stuart Brough, Director of IT services, University of Strathclyde, explains, “We want our students, whether they are on campus, off campus, or anywhere in the world, to have the same IT experience. Esteem’s solution has been designed to meet this as well as match our growing set of business requirements and aspirations for education in the future.”

Alastair Kitching, commercial director at Esteem, comments, “We are delighted to be working with Strathclyde to deliver a project of this scale in the education space. This is testament to the University’s approach to developing and enhancing teaching methods.”

The contract will also provide a single point of contact for all Strathclyde’s maintenance and support needs which is welcomed by the University. The roll-out for the new IT structure will begin in January 2008 and will be in place before the start of the next academic year.

www.esteem.co.uk

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