University of Maryland Takes Next Steps With Virtualization

The University of Maryland’s Department of Transportation Services is taking virtualization to the next level.The department, known as DOTS, has a dual mission of managing campus parking and running a fleet of shuttle buses. In 2009, the organization virtualized its server infrastructure using VMware technology. Three years later, DOTS replaced the storage component of that environment, installing a storage-area network (SAN) from American Megatrends’ StorTrends division.[Related: Higher-