Simplifying Enterprise IT. 800.283.6387 // datanetworks.com ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND (SMCM) is a liberal arts college located 70 miles southeast of Washington, DC. Boasting several honors undergraduate degree programs and a Master of Arts in Teaching program, SMCM’s total student enrollment is approximately 1,700. The college maintains a 10-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio, and more than 80% of its students live on campus. The challenge The SMCM Information Technology (IT) department utilizes virtual infrastructure to support the college’s mission. Before engaging Data Networks on this project, SMCM had a VMware vSphere 5.1 architecture deployed using a Dell “3-2-1” infrastructure. Three Dell PowerEdge R710 servers hosted 46 teaching and administrative virtual machines (VM

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