Gridstore’s NASg Platform Integrated in California School System
The Ventura Unified School District employs the platform as a means of reducing the infrastructure complexity and management of its distributed architecture.
Network attached storage innovator Gridstore has seen its scale-out NAS solution, NASg, be selected by the Ventura Unified School District to enable cost-efficient business continuity and storage unification. Using the NASg platform, the California school district will eliminate multiple NAS storage silos into a unified storage solution.
The case study proves to be a viable model that may be emulated by channel pros working the education markets.
The Ventura Unified School District supports 29 elementary, middle, and high schools and continuing education facilities over a 165-square mile region. Ventura Unified is managing over 20 TB of data on over 100 servers across the district. The school district has standardized on the Gridstore NASg solution to reduce the infrastructure complexity and management of its distributed architecture to reduce management costs and risk.
“We wanted a comprehensive NAS solution that provided all the functionality for end-to-end storage management with the scale-out features we require as we continue to grow,” explains Ted Malos, Ventura Unified School District’s director of information technology. ††
“With Gridstore NASg, every organization, regardless of the size of its data storage requirements, can have the storage it requires without compromising performance, reliability or risk,” adds Gridstore CEO and co-founder Kelly Murphy. “Small- and mid-sized organizations like Ventura Unified School District can have the limitless storage capacity they require with unlimited network bandwidth and processing capacity at a fraction of the cost of traditional NAS solutions.”
