I've begun a Customer Support Spotlight series that highlights our wonderful customers and Oracle loyalists. A week ago I visited Clemson University. As I travel to visit and educate our customers, I provide many useful tips/tricks and support best practices (as found on my blog and twitter). Most of all, I always discover an Oracle gem who deserves recognition for their hard work and advocacy.
Meet George Manley. George is a Storage Engineer who has worked in Clemson's Data Center all
through college, partially in the Hardware Architecture group and
partially in the Storage group. George and the rest of the Storage Team work
with most all of the storage technologies that they have
here at Clemson. This includes a wide array of different vendors' disk
arrays, with the most of them being Oracle/Sun 2540's. He also works with
SAM/QFS, ACSLS, and our SL8500 Tape Libraries (all three Oracle/Sun
products).
(pictured L to R, Matt Schoger (Oracle), Mark Flores (Oracle) and George Manley)
George was kind enough to take us for a data center tour. It was
amazing. I rarely get to see the inside of data centers, and this one
was massive.
Clemson
Computing and Information Technology’s physical resources include the
main data center located in the Information Technology Center at the
Innovation Campus and Technology Park. The core of Clemson’s
computing infrastructure, the data center has 21,000 sq ft of raised
floor and is powered by a 14MW substation. The ITC power capacity is
4.5MW. The data center is the home of both enterprise and HPC systems,
and is staffed by CCIT staff on a 24 hour basis
from a state of the art network operations center within the ITC. A
smaller business continuance data center is located on the main campus. The data center serves a wide variety of purposes
including HPC (supercomputing) resources which are shared with other
Universities throughout the state, the state's medicaid processing
system, and nearly all other needs for Clemson University.
Yes, that's no typo (14,256 cores and 37TB of memory!!!
Thanks for the tour George and thank you very much for your time. The tour was fantastic. I enjoyed getting to know your team and I look forward to many successes from Clemson using Oracle products.
-Chris WartickiGlobal Customer Management
