Seattle University is using 3PAR's InServ. The INI Group interviewed Bo Vieweg, Director of Information Technology. This is how Bo describes his role:

“I’m actually a SunGard higher education employee. Seattle University and SunGard higher education have a long term managed and leveraged services contract to provide the wide range of IT services to the university. I’m the IT director here on campus. I’m primarily responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the IT department including learning technologies, applications and web development, data center operations, network management and client services.”

The following is an overview of Seattle University’s IT environment:

• One hundred year old Jesuit university 
• Eight thousand students
• Two thousand employees
• One hundred physical servers
• AIX, Windows, VMware 3.5
• Eighty terabytes of online storage

Listen to individual answers by clicking on the following questions:

1. Why did you decide to implement the 3PAR InServ?
   
2. Can you share with us the process you went through to decide on which storage system to go with?
3. Can you give us examples of how the 3PAR InServ provided real value to your company?
   
4. Can you tell us how the 3PAR InServ has improved on the overall economic effectiveness within your IT operations?
   
5. Can you give us any insights on the 3PAR InServ that would be useful for other IT professionals considering this solution?
6. What are the next steps using the 3PAR InServ?
7. Would you recommend the 3PAR InServ to other IT professionals and can you tell us why?

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