• Three college students walk down their school hallway. A female with dark brown hair holding a sheet of paper can be found on the left. A male student with a gray shirt and a blue and white checkered long-sleeved shirt is in the middle. And a female with blonde hair holding two documents is on the right.

    CUSTOMER STORIES

    Meeting changing requirements with flexible, scalable solutions

    • CustomerGhent University​

      IndustryHigher Education

      LocationBelgium

    • Vision

      Ghent University, one of the top 100 universities in the world, required a way to accommodate fast-growing storage requirements while providing researchers with a secure way to quickly glean insights from data from anywhere, at any time.

    • Solution

      To gain the scalability, accessibility and security it needed, Ghent University partnered with Dell Technologies to create a data storage solution that would provide quick insights and fast recovery, if needed. 

    • Impact

      With a user-friendly, scalable storage solution from Dell Technologies, Ghent University can accommodate growing data, automate file storage workload requests and provide researchers with access to information from anywhere using S3 protocols while saving an estimated 30–35% over other storage alternatives.

    • Johan Van Camp, Head of ICT Infrastructure, Ghent University

      “ECS object storage is the strategic platform of the future for us. In a hybrid, multicloud world, ECS supports a wide range of applications.” 

      A zoomed-in image of a black Dell server with five hexagons and the Dell logo in the center.

    • Business Results

    • Powers a user-friendly, self-service portal to automate file storage workload requests.

    • Provides flexibility and scalability to easily increase capacity and storage performance. 

    • Protects against cyberthreats and enables access to information from anywhere using S3 protocols.

    • Offers an estimated 30–35% savings over other storage alternatives.

    • Provides vital data protection and security against growing cyberthreats.

    • How Ghent University leveraged Dell Technologies

    • Dell PowerScale

      Offering flexibility, security and efficiency for any workload.

    • Dell ECS

      Delivering scalability, performance, and resilience in the world’s most cyber-secure object storage.

    • Dell PowerProtect DD Series Appliances

      Increasing resiliency with the #1 purpose-built backup appliance that supports data immutability.

    • Dell PowerEdge Servers

      Accelerating transformation anywhere with purpose-built, cyber-resilient and intelligent servers.

    • Dell ProDeploy Plus

      Accelerating deployment timelines and reducing support calls, freeing IT teams’ time.

    • Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)

      Helping IT administrators deploy, update and monitor PowerEdge servers anywhere, anytime.

    • Dell SyncIQ

      Enabling the flexible management and automation of data replication on PowerScale.