College Cuts Server Infrastructure By More Than Half
Business need
To meet growing demand, Stoke Damerel Community College wanted to increase enterprise efficiency across its server and storage infrastructure.
Solution
Working with Dell Partner Deverill, the college deployed virtualized Dell PowerEdge* servers with high-performance Intel® Xeon® processors, and EqualLogic* storage. The solution is protected by Dell ProSupport*.
Stoke Damerel Community College, based in Plymouth, offers a warm atmosphere for students and teachers. It has established an excellent reputation across southwest England, and received excellent reports from the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspectors in areas such as the quality of teaching and attitude of students.
IT plays an important role at the college, with around 900 computers located across the campus. The number of machines continues to grow, as does the demand for applications and data storage to support students’ coursework. To continue meeting the needs of the college, the IT team wanted to make the server and storage infrastructure more efficient. The data center lacked space to deploy new servers, data storage was running short, energy consumption was rising, and data backups were taking longer. In addition to this, IT employees were spending a lot of time on routine management. Eventually, the team got the chance to increase efficiency when the existing infrastructure came to the end of its lifecycle. Gary Holder, Information and Communications Technology Manager at Stoke Damerel Community College, says: “We had the opportunity to redesign the main IT environment and introduce technologies such as virtualization to deliver greater performance.
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College Cuts Server Infrastructure By More Than Half
Business need
To meet growing demand, Stoke Damerel Community College wanted to increase enterprise efficiency across its server and storage infrastructure.
Solution
Working with Dell Partner Deverill, the college deployed virtualized Dell PowerEdge* servers with high-performance Intel® Xeon® processors, and EqualLogic* storage. The solution is protected by Dell ProSupport*.
Stoke Damerel Community College, based in Plymouth, offers a warm atmosphere for students and teachers. It has established an excellent reputation across southwest England, and received excellent reports from the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspectors in areas such as the quality of teaching and attitude of students.
IT plays an important role at the college, with around 900 computers located across the campus. The number of machines continues to grow, as does the demand for applications and data storage to support students’ coursework. To continue meeting the needs of the college, the IT team wanted to make the server and storage infrastructure more efficient. The data center lacked space to deploy new servers, data storage was running short, energy consumption was rising, and data backups were taking longer. In addition to this, IT employees were spending a lot of time on routine management. Eventually, the team got the chance to increase efficiency when the existing infrastructure came to the end of its lifecycle. Gary Holder, Information and Communications Technology Manager at Stoke Damerel Community College, says: “We had the opportunity to redesign the main IT environment and introduce technologies such as virtualization to deliver greater performance.
Read the full College Cuts Server Infrastructure By More Than Half Case Study.
