When it was time for New Albany–Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. in Indiana to upgrade its aging server and storage hardware, it could have purchased another server and storage area network. However, a traditional server and SAN setup would have been expensive for this district of 12,000 students and 1,200 staff.
Plus, managing a traditional data center is not exactly easy. So, NAFCS decided to explore the latest technology.
What IT staff members discovered was hyperconverged infrastructure. They learned HCI equipment is more affordable and easier to manage. That led the district, in…