Castro Valley Unified School District Chooses RELDATA Unified Storage For Robust Disaster Recovery And Reliable Storage Management
Castro Valley Unified School District Chooses RELDATA Unified Storage For Robust Disaster Recovery And Reliable Storage Management
Storage Environment and New Technology Initiatives with Unparallelled
Flexibility, Ease of Management and Reliability
PARSIPPANY, New Jersey @PR2WEB October 19, 2010 RELDATA Inc.
(www.reldata.com), the innovation leader in unified block and file storage
solutions over iSCSI, announced today that the Castro Valley Unified School
District (CVUSD) has chosen RELDATA to support its expanding IT
infrastructure, new technology initiatives, and storage environment that is
expected to increase dramatically in future years. RELDATA's unified storage
system is providing the district a flexible, easy-to-manage, and reliable
solution that offers more disaster recovery options than its previous tape
backup system, and faster restoration of down systems.
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Castro Valley Unified School
District is a 14-school suburban district with two high schools and two
middle schools, as well as elementary and adult school campuses. With an eye
for incorporating cutting edge technology into its IT infrastructure, the
district was an early adopter of wireless WAN technology, as well as
distributed and synchronized student information systems.
The district is now in the process of implementing several new technology
initiatives that include an enhanced student information system, new food
services system, and email archiving. The student information system in
particular is the life blood of any public school district, as it handles
enrollment, compliance with state regulation, and is responsible for
maintaining accurate average daily attendance figures, which is essential
for securing state funding for daily operations.
"As we move toward a more centralized system to support our technology
initiatives, expanding web sites and, as a result, an ever-increasing need
for additional capacity, we knew we'd need a solution that would easily
facilitate restoration if something went wrong - it had to be nearly
bulletproof," said Bruce Gidlund, director of technology for CVUSD. "Based
on our experience with the RELDATA solution so far, we have the assurance of
greater uptime and peace of mind, knowing that our mix of virtual and
non-virtual servers are working in tandem with the RELDATA 9240i storage
area network to ensure the availability of critical data in the event of an
emergency or software failure."
CVUSD has centralized most of its critical servers at the district office.
Applications running on the servers include network monitoring, library
inventory and management, a maintenance work order system, a secure student
information system, state reporting services, web servers, content
management systems, mail services and firewall services. Some of these
services are virtualized, but the district still relies on several
one-server to one-service installations.
With the acquisition of a RELDATA 9240i, the district has begun to migrate
all of its VMware servers to the SAN, and beginning the conversion of its
other servers which will then be available to repurpose at school sites. By
repurposing servers, the district will no longer need to continue purchasing
new servers one-by-one, allowing the SAN to help pay for itself.
RELDATA s intuitive user interface is enabling the district s database
administrator to easily manage LUN creation and snapshot scheduling. "The
ability to create automated snapshots is one of the many features that made
the RELDATA solution attractive to us, so we can have continuous fallback
points without overrunning our storage space," said Gidlund. "This, combined
with flexibility, ease of management, simple installation and the company's
reputation for exceptional service and reliability, made RELDATA the right
choice for our IT needs."
"RELDATA addresses several requirements that the Castro Valley Unified
School District had, including the ability to easily expand its storage
capacity by adding modules to its existing system and having the ability to
scale with the needs of the district as it continues to implement innovative
technologies," said Rich Ozer, president of value added reseller Office
Information Systems. "We're pleased to offer a storage system with these
capabilities, as it gives our customers a real-world solution that aligns
with their strategy for building out their IT infrastructures and planning
for future growth."
Built from the ground up, the RELDATA Unified Storage platform is based on
an open, software-centric architecture that delivers superior performance
for storage consolidation within complex multi-vendor and virtualized server
environments. RELDATA s Unified Storage Engine (USE) leverages the iSCSI
fabric to manage block and file environments more cost-effectively than with
Fibre Channel (FC) alternatives. It provides mid-size and remote enterprises
with significant benefits compared to alternative FC networks including ease
of implementation and simplified storage management that results in
significant cost savings.
"School districts, like mid-tier organizations and distributed enterprises,
are increasingly relying on their IT infrastructures to support not just
their operations, but strategic initiatives and programs that enhance
growth, customer satisfaction and, with education, an innovative learning
environment," said Steven Murphy, CEO, RELDATA. "The Castro Valley Unified
School District is ahead of the curve in terms of leveraging technology to
benefit its schools and students, and we're very pleased to support its
expanding storage environment and disaster recovery requirements with our
unified storage offering."
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About RELDATA
RELDATA is the innovation leader in unified block and file storage solutions
over iSCSI which cost-effectively enable mid-size and distributed
enterprises to nondisruptively consolidate, virtualize and protect data
storage, providing highly scalable, cost-effective integrated storage,
disaster recovery and high availability solutions. The RELDATA Unified
Storage Engine (USE!") platform allows companies to integrate their existing
storage infrastructure to minimize the functional compromise of siloed block
and file solutions while reducing administration costs and data protection
compliance risk, and preserve current storage investments at lower total
costs. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, RELDATA
solutions are available through a global network of value added resellers.
For more information, visit www.reldata.com.
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