Public university meets Disaster Recovery requirements for their distributed authentication infrastructure.
The school has more than 200 undergraduate and graduate academic programs serving approximately 7,500 students. The focus of the university is the development of the total person – academic, aesthetic, spiritual, social and physical. Pitt State was founded in 1903 and is situated on 223 acres in rural Crawford County.
We placed one ADFS server in Pittsburg, Kansas, and a second one at a sister university’s datacenter, Wichita State University, across the state. The two are connected via the Kansas Research and Education Network, but are capable of operating independently.
Assistant Director, Office of Information Services
Located in Kansas, Pitt State operates in an area known as “Tornado Alley,” where severe weather can cause widespread damage to power and communications infrastructure.
The university needed to ensure that critical campus technology and cloud-based services would remain accessible even if the main campus became unavailable.
ADFS provides students with access to local and remotely hosted IT services, making the authentication infrastructure a critical part of the university’s Disaster Recovery strategy.
Pitt State deployed redundant Active Directory and ADFS infrastructure at a sister university in Kansas and used Total Uptime’s cloud platform to provide failover and load balancing across geographically distributed authentication servers.
ADFS infrastructure was distributed between Pittsburg State University and Wichita State University across the state.
Total Uptime provides automated failover so authentication requests can continue even if the main campus becomes unavailable.
The Total Uptime platform also balances authentication requests across geographically distributed ADFS servers.
Authentication services can remain available even if the main campus goes offline.
ADFS infrastructure is distributed across two university data centers.
Redundant infrastructure helps maintain access to critical IT services.
The university describes the solution as simple, straightforward, highly distributed, and highly redundant.
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