The University of New Mexico’s infrastructure was struggling to keep up with the increasing demands on its IT network. To be successful, students and faculty needed an agile foundation that automates access to fast and reliable technology, scaling in and out to accommodate their frequent changes in digital assets—often at a moment’s notice.

After speaking with the university’s NetApp account executive and solutions engineer, Rudy Martinez, a senior system support analyst with the University of New Mexico Computer Science Department, adopted an environment consisting of SolidFire Element Software. The system, which was deployed in a week, has been running without incident since it went live. It gives students and faculty the data storage and network capacity they need to conduct the cutting-edge research the department is known for.