Before moving services to the cloud, the university experienced challenges such as rising IT costs, lengthy delivery times for IT projects, and difficulty meeting performance, availability, and data security requirements. Because IT resources were not centralized, it was not feasible to provide enterprise-class performance, reliable failover, and regular backup for all systems. The university was not able to leverage economies of scale to gain better pricing, and the average cost for a new IT project was US$85,100. The university wanted a storage platform that would help it maintain security, accommodate growth, and provide 24/7 availability for Cloud USP data and services.

NetApp FAS6200 Series storage systems are designed to deliver superior availability and proven performance to satisfy the most demanding workloads. The leading NetApp flash portfolio integrates with the FAS6200, letting you put flash where you need it: in controllers, arrays, or servers. FAS6200 gives you agility to meet changing application requirements without re-architecting your storage.

The FAS3200 series is a midrange platform tailored to deliver the performance, expandability and capacity scaling critical to the needs of clients' growing business. Fully Flash-ready systems support internal Flash, solid-state disks (SSDs) and advanced server cache, so clients can achieve optimum performance while minimising their total investment in Flash. This significantly reduces the total storage capacity clients need.

The Digital Factory (DF) Division offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software and technology-based services in order to support manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their manufacturing processes and reducing the time to market of their products. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe. With their positioning along the electrification value chain, Siemens has knowhow that extends from power generation to power transmission, power distribution and smart grid to the efficient application of electrical energy.

NEC provides a broad range of IT products and services through software, hardware, integration, and consulting. It offers system integration, maintenance and support, outsourcing, cloud services, and equipment for government, healthcare, finance, and media markets. For telecom customers it provides network infrastructure, services, and management. NECs thick portfolio also includes system platforms with hardware, software, enterprise networks, and services. NEC does most of its business domestically.Year Founded: 1899Revenue: $26.1 billion (2013)TYO: 6701

Hewlett Packard Enterprise or HPE (formerly HP) makes IT environments more efficient, productive and secure, enabling fast, flexible responses to a rapidly changing competitive landscape. They enable organizations to act quickly on ideas by delivering infrastructure that can be easily composed and recomposed to meet shifting demands, so they can lead in today’s marketplace of disruptive innovation.Year founded: 2015 (1939)Revenue: $53.0 billion (2014)NYSE: HPE