 Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante and I'm with Wikibon.org and you're watching SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of HP Discover. This is the fourth day of the event. This is the third day we've been covering it. So, day four is the wrap up day. Big festivities last night, a bunch of parties going on. And tonight is the big concert and a big customer event. And we're here, this is theCUBE. And we try to bring you the smartest people that we can find at these events. We extract their knowledge and we share it with you, our audience. And today we have a customer segment. We have two gentlemen from Sao Paulo State University. Jesseon Cavalcanti and Carlos Coletti, our practitioners and of course HP customers. So gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you for coming on. Thank you, thank you for opportunity. So we were talking offline, Las Vegas. You guys were here last year for HP Discover. And so what do you think? What do you think of the show, Jesseon? This show is awesome. The stands, the technology, the people that we can talk, the experience, it's all very nice. Yeah, so now tell me what you guys do. Jesseon, why don't we start with you at Sao Paulo State University? What's your role? I am a network analyst at the university. We work with the network infrastructure. This guy here, we'll talk more about he is the manager of the network. And in fact, we have a responsibility for the internet link and for all the infrastructure of the one network. Yeah, so Sao Paulo State University, tell us a little bit about the university and how many students and what's the specialty? We have a total community of around 50,000 users. 50,000? 60,000 maybe. 60,000, sizable, yeah. The students are around 45,000 and 10,000 teachers, something like that. It's a huge community and all of them want to be connected on the network of the university. Yeah, so we're going to talk about some of the things you've done in networking, but before we get into that, talk a little bit about, just set up the conversation. What's your IT environment like? You know, what's the installation like? What kind of applications you're running? Talk about that a little bit. So we have a lot of systems in there, ERP systems and things that we were installing or that already started and relied on it. And we have a lot of users starting using technology and users who are used to the technology. So we, a lot of servers, a lot of network access points and stuff like that. Roughly how many servers? How many servers? About maybe, maybe 300. And these are virtual servers? Yeah, a lot of virtual servers. I mean, 300 physical servers. Very physical. Yeah. A lot more virtual. Yeah. In the IDC, from where we work, we work at Rectory, Rectory. We have about 120 servers total, physical and virtual. It's a huge infrastructure there. We are trying to expand this year. So have a lot of work to do. What now, what are you doing for virtualization? Are you a VMware shop or Hyper-V or both? Yes, VMware. Are you a VMware? And what percent of your servers are virtualized? It's about 60 maybe. 60%? 60% yes. Okay. And when did you start that whole process, the virtualization? How long have you been? In 2008. 2008? Mostly test and dev? Are you virtualizing applications now or? Started with small servers, like small websites and just for testing. And now we have a lot of critical applications like email systems. The portal of the university, the main portal, is virtualized. And now we use a cloud solution, third-party cloud solution there. And you mentioned SAP before. Is that right? SAP? ERP. Oh, sorry, ERP. I equate ERP with SAP for some reason. Is it, whose packages are you using for ERP? Is it Microsoft or? No, it's an open software, it's Postgrease. Okay. And are you virtualizing that package, or that application? No, because people are... They don't want to virtualize them. Yeah, they don't want to, but we say it's confident, it's true, we can trust in this technology, but they are still paranoid. They're scared, yeah. Yeah, they're scared. They're worried about the performance, right? They're worried about the security, all the things that people usually worry about. Takes time. So how has, now you started virtualizing 2008, how did it, or did that affect your network at all? Did it change your networking requirements? It was quite easy to deploy servers, and we had a problem with the amount of servers spread because I forgot to mention we are present in 23 cities in the St. Paul State, so it's a big challenge to create a WAN links for a lot of servers like that, and we like to, virtualization is a very big and good solution for us because it's easy to deploy. For the VIP infrastructure also. Yeah, we have 10,000 endpoints, VoIP endpoints there, and the servers are virtualized. So one of the things that obviously a university has to deal with is mobility. Students, and I imagine faculty, they're not chained to a desk all day, like a call center, so they've got iPads and mobile devices, and so talk about mobility and how you've dealt with that. You made me remember that we have many labs for the students with workstations, but half of these labs, people just use the table to put their notebooks, so the workstation is not used on half of the lab. We understand that this lab will get empty in one year or two years. People will bring their own notebook for the lab. This is quite a reality. So you support all mobile devices? I would think so. To bring your own device kind of environment? Yeah, if you have your user and password on the enterprise portal, you've got to be connected. Okay. We have recipes for the devices, and then you go there, you connect, and you put your user and password, and then you go. Now, talk about the physical situation at the university. Is it one big campus? Is it multiple campuses? Do you want to talk? Can I talk? Okay. Thank you. Well, as Carlos remembered, we are present in 23 cities, and we have regional nodes. We have actually five regional nodes, one main node on the cap of the state, and we have two rings, and this, we have a total of 40, 41 nodes. All of them are running HP equipment, and we have routing protocol. We have many IP addresses, and IPv6. IPv6 is already working. Thank you for remembering. We have the website working on IPv6, the DNS servers, email servers with IPv6. Many workstations are already on IPv6. Part of the wireless network is already working on IPv6. It's a nice experience with this new protocol. Nice experience, all running very well. How do you do authentication and management? Can you do that in a centralized fashion? Talk about that a little bit. Yeah, sure. The authentication begins on the enterprise portal. So we have a customized application for the information of personnel, for the faculty, staff, and the students, and all of the information is on this portal. We managed to use that same information for the authentication of the wireless network. We are on the process of unifying this authentication to be also using it on the wired, on the cable network also. This remember us that there is a workflow. It all begins on the human resources or on the academic system. It all begins there. If you have a problem with your password, they don't have to come with us. They have to go to their session to know if there's lack of any information, a document that was not registered. And then if the information in the beginning of the process is okay, then people can use their information for access of the network. It's a work in progress. We are mounting this solution in phases. There are some groups of the universe that are still not yet on this infrastructure, but it's a work in progress. And your infrastructure is, you have all HP shop, are you a mixed shop? Well, it's kind of a mix. Would you help me with this? Most of vendor is, most of switches is HP. All the access points are HP. And we have a little bit of other vendors, because it was a process in 2007. We started a process to standardize the vendor. So HP's your primary vendor? Yeah. But you deal with other vendors? Can you talk about who else? The other vendors? Yeah. We had a lot of other vendors before. Yeah, okay. But we think that if we make one main vendor, it will be easier to deploy the solution and to train people and have the solution. Yeah, so my last question, we were out of time, but my last question is why HP? Why HP? It was a decision in group. The head of the university was deeply involved in this decision. We had the wired network already working with HP equipment, and then we had to do the wireless project. And people in that direction of the university helped us to choose this line because of the unified interface for management. And it's important to remember that as we are a public university, we have to put all vendors to play and the most competitive price wins the vein. So HP has win. Excellent. All right, Jesse and Carlos, thanks very much for coming inside theCUBE. Have a great rest of stay and a good trip back. Bon dia and go Brazil and soccer. I know if they kicked our butts the other day, but that's expected. Thank you. All right, keep it right there. This is theCUBE SiliconANGLE TV and we'll be right back after this work.