Case Study: Clayton County Public Schools achieves hybrid cloud backup efficiency with Sovereign Systems

Clayton County Public Schools Creating an Integrated Hybrid Cloud Backup Solution

Clayton County Public Schools, the largest school district in Georgia, needed a more reliable and efficient way to handle storage, backup, and five-year data retention across its highly virtualized environment. Its small IT team was spending too much time on manual tape-based backup and archival processes, and the district could not justify a major upfront capital expense for long-term storage. Sovereign Systems was brought in to modernize the approach with a hybrid cloud backup strategy.

Sovereign Systems implemented an EMC-based solution using EMC Data Domain for on-premise backup and EMC CloudArray for cloud-integrated storage. The new system moved backups from tape to disk, automated recovery, and supported virtual machine protection while keeping 120 days of data on-site and quarterly/annual backups in the cloud at low cost. As a result, Clayton County Public Schools avoided nearly $500,000 in hardware spending and saved almost 16 hours per week for one employee, allowing the IT team to focus on higher-value work.

Clayton County Public Schools