Fernando Thompson

Country: México
Industria: Education

— Reduction of the initial investment cost of the renovation of its infrastructure ¡n approximately 70% (equipment purchase).
– Cost reduce at your DataCenter on electrical energy and cooling systems of about 80% annually.
— Release of physical space in your datacenter from  134 to 36 physical servers.
— Cost reduction in server management by nearly 35% (staff).
— Increased agility of the IT department in the provisioning of new servers to swift, improve and meet all of their requirements. (50% or more systems running reports or databases).
— Supporting, more efficiently, the processing “hotspots” for the different stages of the University, setting up a brand new way of distributing the computing systems.

We again concluded that Microsoft was the way to go, not only for its costs but also for the integration it has with its other applications.‘In only a few months, Hyper-V, is giving us the first benefits, performance has improved dramatically, as well as the cost, 1m saving about 80% of costs in light, air conditioned and on the operators areas too.”Fernando Thompson de la Rosa

This decision added peace of mind with a staff team conformed with university,  personnel wich are responsible of carrying out the migration of the virtualization process successfully and which was made by Microsoft,

HP and EMC, strategic partners whose experience and capability demonstrated, thus the beginning of the implementation process and updated the cases of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, SQL Server 2008 R2 and System Center.

“Right now, with the virtualization of our technology, we can restore the database on one side and also the virtual machine that has the application, which has the latest configuration, version and patches on an operational level system.” 

Alberto Augusto Manzanilla Hernández

QUITE A GREAT IMPLEMENTATIONA great part of the success of this project was its implementation process, which was meticulously planned and cared, and, of course, the awesome advantages that Microsoft tools represent. 

The success of the implementation was quite a great implementation, it even enable us to migrate the database, controllers, corporate portal, without any problem, and today, even though we have many different users, the general acceptance has been excellent, starting with the engineers in charge of the infrastructure area and systems architecture, college, administration, and even, students themselves, giving us and average total of approximately 10,000users.It is worth mentioning that the implementation time was way less than expected.

The vision of the UDLAP is to always rely on the top of the line technologies, so working along with Microsoft; it has taken the task of providing its users, specialized tools in each area.Mr. Fernando Thompson, Managing Director of IT says that 99% of the platforms available to the University are made up of Microsoft solutions such as Live, SkyDrive, MSN, Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics, SQL Server, only to name a few, and where integration makes them a very strong ally and can design, in a very fast form, with scores of multidirectional solutions.

A HYBRID CLOUDAnother very important and interesting thing is the way in which they are handling the Hybrid Cloud, because the University of the Americas is perfectly combining its private cloud with the public one that Microsoft provides with ongoing management through active directory service which are hosted on their own site.This process is very interesting and useful as it not only uses an e-mail service but also the integration of other applications such as SkyDrive.“The truth ¡s that we changed completely the way the administration takes place at the center management, initially we used to make the administration of 134 servers individually. In a virtual environment you’re able to do it in a centralized way.”   Alberto García Caraveo

 

SAFETY AND RELIABILITYAny existing taboo has been wiped out now, issues such as security and reliability having information in the cloud, even today, represents no security threats in the University, on contrary, it has been described as “great one of the things that has allowed them to keep their portal up and running.

Its confidence and satisfaction are so reliable that even Mr. Fernando Thompson makes an open invitation to meet them on the campus of the Universidad de Las Americas Puebla‘Here we can share widely with you all that is needed, we are an open house to share these experiences because the more successful projects are running in our country, the better it will be.”

An Illinois man left the snowballed streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail.

Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor dead.

At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:

Dearest Wife,

Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.

Your Loving Husband.

P.S. Sure is hot down here.