Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi) Case Studies Ramanujan College's Innovative Open Cloud R&D Platform

	Ramanujan College's Innovative Open Cloud R&D Platform Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi)

Ramanujan College's Innovative Open Cloud R&D Platform

Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud Networks & Connectivity - 5G
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities Education
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Construction Management Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Training
Challenge	Ramanujan College, a constituent college of the University of Delhi, has a computer science department that collaborates with the Indian government, industry stakeholders, and other universities to conduct research and development (R&D) projects. A significant focus area is the development of sovereign cloud platforms that can compete with today's hyperscalers while ensuring data security within India's borders. Previously, most of the R&D work was hosted in the public cloud. However, running performance-intensive applications for 5G communications, blockchain, and a learning management system for over 150,000 participants led to escalating costs. Read More
About Customer	Ramanujan College, named after one of India's most famous mathematicians and established in 1958, is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Its computer science department works closely with the Indian government, industry stakeholders, and other universities to conduct research and development projects. One of its key focus areas is to help develop sovereign cloud platforms that can rival today's hyperscalers, while securing data within India's borders. The college has a learning management system that serves over 150,000 participants. Read More
Solution	Ramanujan College chose Hitachi Vantara and Silver Leaf Solutions as the lowest tender in the RFP. The solution includes a Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G350 array as the foundation for its private cloud, with three Hitachi Advanced Server DS7060 compute nodes to run the cloud software stack and test and production environments for various databases and applications. The DS7060 servers also offered a key technical advantage: each node can scale up to 16 Intel Xeon Platinum processors—ideal for supporting very demanding workloads such as large-scale applications. The research is focusing on comparing open-source technologies such as OpenStack, Proxmox, and Xen to find the best virtualization layer and management tools for building its new cloud stack. It also uses Kubernetes for container orchestration, enabling environments to scale automatically as their infrastructure needs change. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud

Networks & Connectivity - 5G

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Education

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Construction Management

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Training

Challenge

Ramanujan College, a constituent college of the University of Delhi, has a computer science department that collaborates with the Indian government, industry stakeholders, and other universities to conduct research and development (R&D) projects. A significant focus area is the development of sovereign cloud platforms that can compete with today's hyperscalers while ensuring data security within India's borders. Previously, most of the R&D work was hosted in the public cloud. However, running performance-intensive applications for 5G communications, blockchain, and a learning management system for over 150,000 participants led to escalating costs.

About Customer

Ramanujan College, named after one of India's most famous mathematicians and established in 1958, is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Its computer science department works closely with the Indian government, industry stakeholders, and other universities to conduct research and development projects. One of its key focus areas is to help develop sovereign cloud platforms that can rival today's hyperscalers, while securing data within India's borders. The college has a learning management system that serves over 150,000 participants.

Solution

Ramanujan College chose Hitachi Vantara and Silver Leaf Solutions as the lowest tender in the RFP. The solution includes a Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G350 array as the foundation for its private cloud, with three Hitachi Advanced Server DS7060 compute nodes to run the cloud software stack and test and production environments for various databases and applications. The DS7060 servers also offered a key technical advantage: each node can scale up to 16 Intel Xeon Platinum processors—ideal for supporting very demanding workloads such as large-scale applications. The research is focusing on comparing open-source technologies such as OpenStack, Proxmox, and Xen to find the best virtualization layer and management tools for building its new cloud stack. It also uses Kubernetes for container orchestration, enabling environments to scale automatically as their infrastructure needs change.

Impact #1	Ramanujan College now has the dynamic infrastructure to support its innovative R&D work and develop compelling cloud reference architectures for government, industry, and educational institutions. The research is focusing on comparing open-source technologies to find the best virtualization layer and management tools for building its new cloud stack. It also uses Kubernetes for container orchestration, enabling environments to scale automatically as their infrastructure needs change. Another research area is software-defined networking to support the Indian government’s push to expand 5G internet access into rural areas. Experiments with the open-source Magma Core platform are already running on Ramanujan College’s private cloud and providing valuable data to inform decision-making for the 5G rollout. One node of the private cloud is running a production application—the College’s new learning management system. This system provides online courses for more than 150,000 faculty members and research scholars at universities across India.

Impact #1

Ramanujan College now has the dynamic infrastructure to support its innovative R&D work and develop compelling cloud reference architectures for government, industry, and educational institutions. The research is focusing on comparing open-source technologies to find the best virtualization layer and management tools for building its new cloud stack. It also uses Kubernetes for container orchestration, enabling environments to scale automatically as their infrastructure needs change. Another research area is software-defined networking to support the Indian government’s push to expand 5G internet access into rural areas. Experiments with the open-source Magma Core platform are already running on Ramanujan College’s private cloud and providing valuable data to inform decision-making for the 5G rollout. One node of the private cloud is running a production application—the College’s new learning management system. This system provides online courses for more than 150,000 faculty members and research scholars at universities across India.

Benefit #1	Pioneered open cloud solutions for education, digital government and 5G.
Benefit #2	Supported rapid experimentation with one-click open-source cloud technology stacks.
Benefit #3	Delivered scalability and versatility to run multiple high-performance applications per node.

Benefit #1

Pioneered open cloud solutions for education, digital government and 5G.

Benefit #2

Supported rapid experimentation with one-click open-source cloud technology stacks.

Benefit #3

Delivered scalability and versatility to run multiple high-performance applications per node.

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