background Athabasca University (AU) is Canada’s leading distance-education and online university. It serves approximately 37,000 students per year, twice the enrollment of six years ago. Since its inception by the government of Alberta in 1970 over 260,000 students have registered for AU’s individualized courses and programs. AU makes it possible to earn a university education regardless of where one lives or works. business challenge The challenge is establishing cost-effective, High Availability virtualized servers to provide students access to the campus database and applications. Athabasca University provides a large number of e-learning systems to its students as well as providing internet and external applications through its own campus data center. It is essential for

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