Case Study: Benjamin Franklin Charter School achieves scalable, high-performance storage with iXsystems TrueRack and TrueNAS

Benjamin Franklin Charter School - Customer Case Study

Benjamin Franklin Charter School faced significant storage and performance challenges due to an aging, decentralized infrastructure across its five campuses. Their setup lacked data redundancy, was at capacity, and caused frequent downtime, overwhelming their IT team. Seeking a consolidated and scalable solution, the school turned to iXsystems and its TrueNAS and TrueRack products.

iXsystems implemented a custom TrueRack rack-scale architecture with a high-availability TrueNAS system. This solution dramatically increased IOPS, reducing virtual machine spin-up times from a minute to under twenty seconds. The school gained over 1PB of scalable storage, improved data availability, and benefited from US-based support, enabling them to reliably add new services and plan for cloud-based disaster recovery with Backblaze.

Benjamin Franklin Charter School

Aaron Echols

Lead IT Administrator