Blue Springs School District Makes an Educated Decision to Move to Nutanix
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform
- Nutanix appliances
- Nutanix nodes
Tech Stack
- Hyper-converged infrastructure
- Virtual machines
- Replication capabilities
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Energy Saving
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- System Integration
- Training
About The Customer
The Blue Springs School District is located on the eastern edge of Kansas City, Missouri, and comprises 22 elementary, middle, and high schools. The district employs nearly 1,000 teachers and 2,000 staff members, serving an enrollment of over 14,500 students. Known for its tradition of academic excellence, the district continually invests in new technologies to enhance educational outcomes. The district's IT infrastructure was previously decentralized, with separate data centers at each school, leading to challenges in management and efficiency. The district sought a solution to streamline its IT operations, reduce costs, and improve the overall performance of its technology infrastructure.
The Challenge
The Blue Springs School District faced significant challenges with its distributed IT environment, which consisted of separate data centers at each school location. The district was managing a mix of Dell servers, with two domain controllers and data storage for staff and students in each building. This setup required a lot of time and resources to maintain and update, consuming a significant amount of man-hours. Additionally, the cost of replacing aging servers and the energy consumption of running a data center in each building were not efficient. The district lacked a centralized IT team, leading to inconsistent policies and procedures across locations. The goal was to consolidate all servers into one centralized data center to ease IT management, cut costs, and improve performance for end users.
The Solution
The Blue Springs School District chose the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform to address its IT challenges. The district issued an RFP for a new campus server and storage solution, receiving bids from Yellow Dog Networks, Inc., and two other systems integrators. Yellow Dog Networks, a large enterprise solutions provider, recommended the Nutanix platform due to its cost-effectiveness and ease of management. The Nutanix solution allowed the district to consolidate its 22 data centers into a single centralized facility, significantly reducing the physical footprint and simplifying management. The deployment of Nutanix appliances took less than a week, and the district was impressed with the manageability and redundancy of the new environment. The Nutanix Catalyst Program provided training and support, enabling the district's IT team to implement the solution quickly and efficiently.
Operational Impact
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