Case Study: Buchanan County achieves secure, easy-to-manage, cost-saving school storage with Maxta

Maxta Teaches Buchanan County How to Maintain a User-Friendly and Reliable IT Infrastructure

Buchanan County, a six-school district in Iowa, needed a reliable, user-friendly, and cost-effective way to protect critical student data (transcripts, test scores) after running into latency, limited capacity (~500 GB free), and data loss risks with their NAS/hybrid SAN while using VMware vSphere and various Windows applications. With a thin IT staff and a requirement to integrate with Unitrends backup, they evaluated hyper-converged options and selected Maxta’s MxSP software (and MaxDeploy appliances) for a simpler, affordable storage platform.

Maxta deployed its hyper-converged MxSP solution, quickly replacing the slow SAN environment and delivering high resilience, seamless integration with Unitrends and Windows apps/databases, and data-reduction features that yielded significant capacity savings. The result for Buchanan County was faster deployment, reduced management overhead, restored confidence in data protection for transcripts and grades, and an easier-to-manage, cost-effective storage environment — all credited to Maxta.

Buchanan County

Chris Bresson

Technical Coordinator