Case Study: Wake County Schools achieves reliable, scalable data protection with STORServer

Wake county schools - Customer Case Study

Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), a large district in Raleigh, NC serving about 143,000 students across 163 schools plus roughly 250 data-center servers, was protecting 1–1.5 TB of data each night. Their decentralized tape-based process required staff at each school to run ArcServ backups and manage tapes manually, leading to frequent missed backups and limited disaster-recovery capability despite exposure to coastal storms and hurricanes.

WCPSS deployed STORServer Enterprise Backup Appliances—initially to protect school servers and then expanded to cover the data center and increase capacity—implemented in 2–3 days with strong vendor support. The appliances centralized and automated backups, eliminated missed runs, simplified administration, and provided the reliability and scalability the district needed for dependable data protection and disaster recovery.

Wake county schools

Vass Johnson

Senior Director of Networking