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

Benjamin Franklin Charter School cuts VM startup time to under 20 seconds with iXsystems

Benjamin Franklin Charter School was facing significant IT challenges due to its aging and decentralized storage infrastructure across five campuses. The school's systems suffered from extremely slow performance, unreliable hardware, and a lack of data redundancy, which overwhelmed the IT team. This prompted the search for a new consolidated storage solution, leading them to vendor iXsystems and its TrueNAS and TrueRack products.

iXsystems provided a custom TrueRack rack-scale architecture solution, which included high-availability TrueNAS storage. This implementation delivered a massive increase in IOPS, reducing the time to spin up virtual machines from a minute to under twenty seconds. The solution gave Benjamin Franklin Charter School maximum data availability, over 1PB of scalability, and reliable, US-based support from iXsystems.

Benjamin Franklin Charter School