Case Study: Blue Springs School District achieves 22-site datacenter consolidation and $100K annual power savings with Nutanix

Blue Springs School District Makes an Educated Decision to Move to Nutanix

Blue Springs School District, serving 22 elementary, middle, and high schools and over 14,500 students, faced a fragmented IT environment with a separate datacenter in each building—144 servers total—creating heavy administrative overhead, inconsistent policies, and rising replacement and energy costs.

Working with Yellow Dog Networks, the district deployed Nutanix’s hyper‑converged Virtual Computing Platform (four nodes) in under a week to consolidate 22 datacenters into a half‑rack centralized facility. The move simplified management and redundancy, enabled rapid VM provisioning, cut electrical costs by about $100,000 per year, produced an expected payback in under four years, and set the stage to add capacity and migrate Exchange and PowerSchool onto the platform.

Blue Springs School District

Tim Jones

Director of IT