The Toyota Technical Development Corporation had to use an IT Business Continuity Planning (BCP) in order to properly protect important data and ensure business continuity in the case of any disruptive event. As a result, TTDC decided on adopting a virtual desktop system (VDI), and faced the issues of migrating from the existing system, and securing stress-free operation at a cost effective price. Yasuhito Kurebayashi remarked that to resolve the issues surrounding the introduction of the VDI, they could see that it was first of all necessary to migrate the storage system currently in operation, and then expand its memory capacity and scalability as necessitated by the increased I/O speed.

The University of Queensland (UQ) is a leading academic institution with nine internationally recognized research institutes. The researchers at UQ are making landmark discoveries in various fields and depend on the IT infrastructure to deliver ultra-fast, multi-site data access. The University needed to ensure universal data access regardless of where researchers are based or data is created, manipulated, and archived. The University uses QRIScloud, a high-capacity cloud compute and storage node of the NCRIS national research infrastructure operated by the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF). Exchanging data between campus computing clusters and QRIScloud was done manually to date, which wasn’t the best use of valuable research time. Equally important was the proactive need to address constant, organic data growth resulting from increased research collaborations.