Apollo Education Group (APOL), parent company of the University of Phoenix, may be the largest privately-owned for-profit university system in the world. It’s also one of the largest consumers of IT in the world of higher education. Two years ago, Apollo explored a public cloud solution for its IT needs, but ultimately rejected that in favor of a private cloud based on a converged Vblock solution from EMC (NYSE: EMC) subsidiary VCE. In an exclusive interview, Apollo CIO Mike Sajor explained his reasoning to the Daily Cloud. Apollo has 207,000 students, and some 80%-85% of them get their education online. With revenue running at a $2.7 billion annual rate, and about 1,700 IT employees, Apollo is a large and innovative investor in IT products and services. “Our sole focus is connecting learners to careers, to transform their lives and their families’ lives and even the lives of future generations,” says Mike Sajor. With that end in mind, Sajor and his team began a few years ago looking at a next generation online learning environment based on cloud to support the delivery of massively-scaled online learning.
Apollo Education Group, Is the company behind Western International University, University of Phoenix and a number of other global educational institutions. They are another example of how automating the delivery of application and infrastructure services helped them deliver faster access to online learning services.
Powered by VMware’s vCloud Suite Apollo Education Group has provided self-service access to a catalog of IT services for developers and test engineers. Automation speed up service delivery; thereby, improving engineering productivity. Policy based governance enforces organizational best practices without manual approvals which slow down the process. Visibility into capacity, systems health and performance help assure systems operate at peak efficiency and minimize downtime.
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Apollo Education Group, Inc. is an American corporation based in the South Phoenix area of Phoenix, Arizona. Apollo Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns several for-profit educational institutions including University of Phoenix, Western International University, College for Financial Planning and Axia College.