Delphix and Unisys Corporation Accelerates California State Universitys Digital Strategy
December 07, 2021 at 09:30 am EST
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Delphix and Unisys Corporation announced that they have accelerated California State Universitys (CSU) digital strategy by providing quick and secure access to data to support student application development. The nations large four-year public university can now provide its 23 campuses with data on-demand to implement their own digital strategies. This kind of rapid access has enabled software engineers at the campuses to quickly develop innovative applications to enable Graduation Initiative 2025, an ambitious project that aims to increase graduation rates while eliminating opportunity and achievement gaps. The project also includes applications that enable students to check their grades, financial aid, graduation status, etc. The initiative is a part of the universitys larger hybrid architecture strategy aimed at improving graduation rates, student experience and satisfaction, and eliminating equity gaps in graduation rates. Hybrid architecture Strategy: Unisys enables CSU to leverage the Delphix DevOps Data Platform to accelerate and simplify its Hybrid-Architecture enablement. The platforms ability to easily spin up, refresh, and tear down private and public cloud-based data environments dramatically enhances the universitys application delivery pipeline. Impact on Cost and Efficiency: Delphix and Unisys work together with CSU to help the university reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Using Delphix and Unisys, CSU has saved over $4.5M per year and avoided future costs of over $7 million per year in data storage expenditures, thus freeing up resources to fund innovation. The initiative has also significantly improved CSUs productivity measures. The Delphix DevOps Data Platform delivers virtual masked copies of the CMS production data on-demand, using a fraction of the storage space compared to physical data storage. This has helped Unisys reduce CSU's physical storage consumption while allowing its campuses to use self-service to clone and manipulate their data. Delphixs data automation helps Unisys deliver data faster and more frequently to CSUs campuses. The application teams can now instantly refresh copies with updated production data, rewind data to any previous point in time, and branch out data copies so data versions align with release versions, all of which dramatically improve productivity.
Unisys Corporation is an information technology (IT) solutions company. It provides its clients with advice and capabilities to architect, develop, modernize, implement and integrate the technologies that helps their organizations. It operates in three segments: Digital Workplace Solutions (DWS), Cloud, Applications & Infrastructure Solutions (CA&I) and Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS). The DWS segment provides modern and traditional workplace solutions. The CA&I segment provides solution in Digital Platforms and Applications or Infrastructure, which includes cloud management, hybrid infrastructure, modern applications, data and AI, and cyber security. The ECS segment delivers proprietary and hybrid compute capabilities in the cloud and on-premises. It classifies its solution as either License and Support or Specialized Services and Next-Gen compute. Its product includes Unisys InteliServe, PowerSuite, Unisys Logistics Optimization, CloudForte, ClearPath Forward and Unisys Stealth.