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IT Infrastructure Security Update for Local Prep School

Q1 2021

A recent IT security audit revealed that this local prep school needed to maintain compliance with supported versions of their operating systems, hardware, and software to better secure and protect school data. They also determined the need to improve their disaster recovery capabilities – without deploying any physical infrastructure – by leveraging a more geographically diverse replication strategy, and the need to increase availability of the existing primary datastore for their vSphere infrastructure. Additionally, they wanted to address the short supply of 10GbE ports within their environment, with only a single 10GbE port on each controller attached to the SAN switches in the current shared storage platform.

To meet the school’s IT security needs, Data Networks refreshed the existing VMware host servers with new Dell PowerEdge R640 servers configured with the latest version of VMware’s ESXi operating system; reconfigured the 10GbE SAN connectivity; reconfigured the backup and replication solution leveraging our Veeam DRaaS solution; secured and encrypted data hosted outside of the school to prevent unauthorized access; and deprecated the existing disaster recovery infrastructure, including all host servers.

Tags: K-12, K12, private, education