The Challenge

Jubilee International High School is located in Runnymede, Surrey, and has a student population of almost 700 and 120 staff members. It prides itself on its innovative approaches to all aspects of learning, such as forging strong links with partner schools across the globe and developing an exemplary Performing Arts department. In order to ensure that both pupils and teachers have access to essential coursework and resources while increasing the size of the student body, the school needed to implement a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure. Its existing fragmented data storage platform was reaching the end of its life and could not provide the capacity and scalability needed to meet the school’s goal of making itself an IT leader. Its backup system also needed to be modernised to keep students’ work safe, as it was based on a tape library solution which was inef ficient and costly.
 

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The Business Benefits

The school expects to see significant cost savings over time thanks to the deployment of the SAN. Its simple scalability features mean that it will not be necessary to purchase additionalstorage and backup equipment in order to expand capacity. Moreover, the reliability of the system was demonstrated right from the beginning, working straight out of the box.
 
After quick deployment and migration, the IT team at Jubilee High is looking forward to making use of its new SAN to build an innovative set of ICT tools for the school community. It plans to merge its two networks (curriculum and administrative) into one to simplify management and will then develop a remote learning environment for its students so that they can access content from anywhere. It sees the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200 underpinning its SAN as the heart of a new, future proof IT resource for the school and its student.