When a leading university in New York decided to revamp its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, it hoped to improve performance (especially during peak regis- tration periods) and reduce overall total cost of ownership (TCO). The university met these goals and gained unexpected benefits by moving their systems to Red Hat Linux on servers that were integrated with SanDisk Fusion ioMemory products and SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux. Protection is Paramount The university comprises multiple divisions that serve more than 10,000 students. Their use a mission-critical Oracle database to maintain all the information for student registration. They used an HP/UX, SAN- based storage environment with replication of its full SAN architecture between two fabrics in a cluster. It trac

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