Rodillian Multi Academy Trust reduces its IT operational expenses by centralizing its domains around StarWind HCA

StarWind HCA has proved successful, our domains are
centralised and performance has been excellent.

Mark Newman, Director for ICT & Data

PROBLEM

Before implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), all the schools of Rodillian Multi Academy Trust were running separate domains using legacy hardware either with discreet SANs or direct-attached storage (DAS) and a mix of Hyper-V and a VMware hypervisor on top. The server estate was out of warranty and support at most sites. The existing infrastructure was not suitable for running the organization’s central services and primary site. So, Rodillian Multi Academy Trust needed a solution that would provide robust resilience and capacity/scalability for the potential growth of the organization.

SOLUTION

Rodillian Multi Academy Trust has chosen a highly cost-effective StarWind HCA solution as it provided both resilience and high specification hardware. The organization went to the market and looked at other solutions and StarWind HCA was deemed the best value product for its requirements. Using StarWind HCA, all out-of-date and out-of-support servers were replaced with one high-performance hyperconverged platform. The StarWind product allowed to centralize the organization’s domains into one with Hyper-V on top and to be scalable as Rodillian Multi Academy Trust grows as an organization.

About the Company

Rodillian Multi Academy Trust is a trust of secondary schools in the Yorkshire area of England. It specializes in transforming under-performing schools by allowing them to benefit from “The Rodillian Experience.”

Company Profile

Education

Contact Person

Mark Newman, Director for ICT & Data