New York University

Founded in 1831, New York University is the largest private university in the United States. The university is composed of 14 schools, colleges, and divisions and operates branch campus and research programs in other parts of the United States and abroad. NYU is one of the largest employers in New York City, with over 16,000 employees.

Business Issues

• Archive millions of digital assets for long-term preservation
• Reduce complexity of administration for storage
• Require systems that have ability to scale as the volume of archived data grows at a fast rate

Solution

NYU uses a cost-effective Sun storage subsystem with nearly a half petabyte of storage and runs key asset management applications on Sun servers.