Case Study: Lawnswood School achieves 43% storage I/O reduction and extended hardware life with Condusiv Technologies' V-locity

Lawnswood School recommends V-locity and Diskeeper software after outstanding results

Lawnswood School, a large 11–18 comprehensive in Leeds supporting roughly 1,200 student and 200 staff workloads, was facing storage latency and sluggish performance from aging SAN hardware as millions of small files and simultaneous applications stressed the environment. When a nearby “clone” school experienced almost identical hardware but much worse performance, Lawnswood’s IT team was asked to help diagnose and resolve the issue.

They deployed Condusiv’s V-locity and Diskeeper software—no additional hardware required—to reduce unnecessary I/O with intelligent caching and write-optimization. The result was dramatic: Lawnswood cut storage I/O by about 43% (nearly three billion requests, saving over 149 days of cumulative storage time) and extended SAN life, while the other school saw visible performance restored with roughly a 50% boost within 24 hours (even described as a doubling of performance), delivering clear cost and user-experience benefits.

Lawnswood School

Noel Reynolds

IT Manager