Case Study: Pflugerville Independent School District achieves reliable backups and fast, easy restores with SEP Software's SEP sesam

Pflugerville Independent School District - Customer Case Study

Pflugerville Independent School District, a rapidly growing Texas school district, was migrating from aging SAN and server hardware and unreliable tape-library backups to a new SAN and virtual server environment. Needing a compact, dependable solution that supported Novell NetWare, Cluster Volumes and eDirectory, they evaluated and chose SEP Software’s SEP sesam after testing the product.

SEP Software implemented SEP sesam on a SUSE Linux server with 20 TB of onboard storage occupying just 2 rack units, replacing tape and enabling immediate, reliable restores. The district now runs about 30 full backup jobs (each over 5 TB) every Friday—typically finishing by Saturday evening—has eliminated after-hours monitoring, dramatically reduced backup-related workload, and moved forward with the SAN/virtual transition with confidence.

Pflugerville Independent School District

John Carlton

Sr. Systems Administrator