Secondary Schools: Getting value for money from your network

Getting value for money from your network

With data doubling in size every year as a result of DIDA, BTEC, the Freedom of Information Act and of course - student creativity, schools & colleges are looking for new ways to manage their growth and control costs.

Zentek, a specialist in implementing educational Storage Area Networks (SANs), offers simple advice on how to implement affordable, reliable and easy networked storage solutions to give your school a robust and expandable solution.

What are the benefits of a SAN?

Buying a SAN today is a very cost effective option as you are able to share a common data store across several servers which reduces hardware, licensing and maintenance costs. It also reduces the server specification (in terms of not having to deploy RAID locally) and reduced downtime for maintenance. Shared data and backup resources will allow you to deploy data continuity strategies with the SAN becoming the pivotal component in helping you deploy an off-site or mirrored data store facility.