Case Study: Graves County Schools achieves faster response times and cost‑saving remote IT management with Goverlan

How Goverlan helped Graves County Schools green their IT department and slash energy costs

Graves County School District, a rural Kentucky system covering roughly 556 square miles with 18 locations and over 2,000 devices, relied on just three systems administrators to support staff and students. Facing shrinking budgets, long travel times between sites and an urgent Java 7 Update 10 zero-day that needed rapid patching, the IT team needed faster, real-time ways to find, access and fix machines without disrupting teachers or driving across the district.

Using Goverlan’s Scope and Custom Actions, Wake-on-LAN and background remote tools, the team quickly identified and patched vulnerable Java installs, selectively woke offline machines, and performed unobtrusive troubleshooting. The result: a virtual-first support model that cut physical visits, saved time and travel costs, maintained higher service quality on a smaller budget, and automated power management to reduce the district’s energy footprint.

Graves County Schools

John Wilkins

District Network Technician