Case Study: Township High School District 211 achieves scalable, deduplicated backups and fast restores with Unitrends Recovery 946S

Advanced Deduplication Technology Enhances School District Data Backup

Township High School District 211, the largest high school district in Illinois with seven schools and roughly 11,600 students, was struggling with rapidly growing data, aging infrastructure and limited storage capacity. Outdated devices prevented effective compression and deduplication, and the IT team needed a budget- and timeline-constrained upgrade to modernize backup and replication.

MNJ Technologies recommended a Unitrends Recovery 946S appliance with replication to a DR infrastructure using a GFS retention strategy; Unitrends’ Adaptive Deduplication (global byte-level, inline and source-side) dramatically reduced storage needs—up to 95%—and sped restores, archiving and replication. The district now has a reliable, scalable backup solution expected to serve 5–7 years, delivering simpler restores, extended device life, no-limits licensing and improved peace of mind.

Township High School District 211