Case Study: Bellarmine College Preparatory achieves continuous campus-wide uptime and lower storage costs with DataCore Software

Bellarmine College Preparatory - Customer Case Study

Bellarmine College Preparatory, a private secondary school in San Jose, faced rapid data growth and no modern shared storage platform to support VMware virtualization, clustered VMs and mission‑critical apps. With tight budgets and mixed, off‑the‑shelf drives and controllers, the school needed a flexible, scalable, stretchable and cost‑effective solution — and selected DataCore’s SANsymphony‑V software‑defined storage to replace appliance‑specific options.

DataCore deployed SANsymphony‑V on “white box” SuperMicro servers in a stretched two‑node campus configuration, using thin provisioning, auto‑tiering and RAM cache to virtualize diverse storage hardware and integrate with VMware/Windows. The result: three years of continuous uptime with the DataCore SAN, roughly 4x better capacity utilization from thin‑provisioning/auto‑tiering, significant performance improvements (DataCore customers report up to 10x), maintained SQL/Exchange performance after virtualization, and lower storage costs and administrative time.

Bellarmine College Preparatory

Chris Carey

IT Director