Case Study: a county school system in Tennessee achieves high-performance, low-latency storage with iXsystems TrueNAS

county school system cuts PowerSchool restore time from 5 hours to 1 hour 45 minutes with iXsystems

A county school system in Tennessee, serving over 30,000 students and staff, was experiencing critical performance issues with its previous Dell EqualLogic servers, resulting in weekly downtime that disrupted essential services. After evaluating solutions from vendors like Nimble and Lenovo, they turned to iXsystems to find a storage solution capable of handling their heavy I/O databases with low latency and high availability.

iXsystems implemented a TrueNAS storage solution, including an all-flash TrueNAS Z50 HA appliance for their most intensive virtual servers. The results were immediate, eliminating all previous outages and significantly improving performance; for example, a critical database restore time was reduced from 5 hours to just 1 hour and 45 minutes. The school system praised iXsystems for the superior performance, lower acquisition cost, and knowledgeable support, which together provided a reliable foundation for their operations.