At Lone Star, Cloud Computing Rides to the Rescue

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/08/01/at-lone-star-cloud-computing-rides-to-the-rescue.aspx

Lone Star College  System in Houston, TX, has seen incredible growth over the past three years,  with enrollment rising from 63,000 to 85,000 students. The community college  system is made up of five colleges, two university centers, and eight  instructional centers, with new locations opening soon. The combination of  accelerated growth and widespread campuses created an increasingly difficult  challenge for IT services. To address this challenge, LSCS partnered with EMC and VMware to implement a  cloud-computing solution designed to deliver IT-as-a-service to more than 90,000  students, faculty, and staff.

The really great part of this interview is when Link Alandar talks about how EMC and VMware brought his Exchange, Sharepoint and network systems to 99.999% uptime.