Case Study: Rodillian Multi Academy Trust achieves lower IT operational costs and centralized domains with StarWind Software HCA

Rodillian Multi Academy Trust reduces its IT operational expenses by centralizing its domains around StarWind HCA

Rodillian Multi Academy Trust, a group of secondary schools in Yorkshire, faced fragmented IT: each school ran separate domains on aging, out-of-warranty servers with a mix of SAN/DAS and Hyper-V/VMware hypervisors. This legacy estate could not reliably host central services or support expected growth, so the trust needed a resilient, scalable platform that would lower operational costs and enable domain centralization.

The trust deployed a cost-effective StarWind HCA three-node, all‑flash hyperconverged appliance and consolidated its environments onto Hyper‑V, replacing outdated servers with a single high-performance platform. The move centralized domains, improved resilience and performance, and provided scalable capacity for future growth while reducing IT operational expenses.

Rodillian Multi Academy Trust

Mark Newman

Director for ICT & Data