CASE STUDY
T
ertiary education is developing
rapidly in the UAE, with a fast-
growing young population and
a government committed to developing
its ambitious Vision 2021 plan. This has
created ever greater demand for world-class
university education.
The University of Sharjah, which opened in
1997, has grown significantly during its 20-
year history in terms of research, diversity of
courses offered and the number of students
enrolled, which now stands at some 14,000.
Amid this growth in student numbers,
combined with the increasing demands
of a young, tech savvy generation, the IT
department was under increasing pressure
to develop and deploy IT systems to take the
university ICT systems to the next level.
WE NEEDED
TO PROVIDE
HIGH-QUALITY
SERVICES THAT
PEOPLE COULD
RELY ON; AND
THOSE SERVICES
NEEDED TO BE
INNOVATIVE.
The University of Sharjah had been
collaborating with VMware on compute
virtualisation for a number of years,
speeding up delivery of critical applications
and optimising the resource consumption,
establishing savings on hardware, white
space, energy consumption and cost.
In 2018, the university took the decision
to invest in the latest virtualisation
solutions, and VMware was the obvious
choice. The University of Sharjah opted to
work with VMware to modernise its data
centres, integrate public clouds, transform
networking and security and empower
digital workspaces.
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