School Districts greatly vary in size and need in relation to technology depending on the size of the communities they support; however, all districts have a responsibility to provide technology resources and tools to their students needed to compete in the modern world. In an age where parents, teachers and students often communicate via email or web site portals, data management becomes a large concern for most school Network Operations personnel. Some schools are large enough to have a need for a network that has the power and capability to support 20,000 students, accompanying parents, supportive teachers, and dedicated administrative staff. INTRUST GROUP delivers innovative technology to ensure a cost effective solutions to education’s unique challenges.

EXAMPLE OF SCHOOL DISTRICT CHALLENGES

• 18,000 Students
• 3,000 Teachers and Administrative staff
• Challenging budget constraints
• Disk Capacity Problems with Hardware
• Cooling Problems in Data Rooms
• Space Constraints in a Growing Community
• 12 Terabytes (TB) of data resided in central office on independent servers

SOLUTION PROVIDED BY TIG

• Developed new disaster recovery (DR) location
• Synchronously replicate the most important 3 TBs of key information from central site to their new DR location
• Used off-the-shelf servers running DataCore SANmelody software
• Storage virtualization software automatically mirrors updates between the two sites over a 10 Gbps fibre connection

RESULTS BENEFITING SCHOOL DISTRICT

• Virtual storage pool appear to be one large shared resource equally accessible
• Virtual servers at the DR location take over vital operations any time that the central data center undergoes maintenance or is threatened by an un planned outage
• Provided client with robust, enterprise-level SAN at SMB price
• Utilized technology with advantage of open platform to enable TIG to tailor the hardware components to school’s manufacturer preferences