Kokomo School Corporation Accelerates Learning with NetApp
May 30 2017 - 8:00AM
“Our students are our main priority,” said Jason Gaunt, director of
technology systems for Kokomo School Corporation. “With NetApp, we
can be sure that students have access to the technologies they need
to learn, while our teachers and administrators have access to the
information they need to do their jobs and better support our
students.”
Like many K-12 districts, Kokomo School Corporation,
headquartered in Indiana, must balance limited resources with an
ever-increasing dependence on technology. The growing number of
teachers using online tools and applications to personalize
instruction, coupled with the district’s goal to provide every
student with a computing device by fall 2018, compelled the
district’s IT staff to find a flexible, all-flash solution.
Partnering with Presidio, Kokomo School Corporation modernized
its data center and replaced its older third-party storage with a
FlexPod® Datacenter converged infrastructure from Cisco and
NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP) using NetApp All Flash FAS arrays. As a
result, students no longer need to wait on technology to obtain
information and assignments. Teachers and administrators enjoy
faster access to email and student data. They can spend less time
waiting and processing information online and more time interacting
with students.
In addition, the Kokomo IT team is now more responsive to the
administrators, teachers, and students. In the past, the IT team
had to set aside time to provide resources for new IT projects. Now
they can spin up specialized servers almost on demand. Because
Kokomo can deploy resources quicker, they can also do it
more often. With a smaller IT footprint and consolidated
storage silos and applications, they can grow more efficiently
while preserving their existing investments by integrating the
solution easily with the existing system. And with a faster testing
environment in place, they can quickly find products to better
serve their students.
With its new solution, Kokomo has:
- Reduced IT footprint and accelerated responsiveness
- Maximized utilization of existing resources by creating a more
efficient use of space
- Eliminated performance concerns, allowing teachers and
administrators to spend more time interacting with students
More information:
- Read the Kokomo case study
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