Case Study: Taylor Community School Corporation achieves 15-minute ransomware recovery and enterprise-grade backup with Unitrends Recovery Series 818S

Enterprise-grade Backup and Continuity on an Education Budget

Taylor Community School Corporation, a K–12 district in Kokomo, IN serving about 1,800 users with a three-person IT team, struggled with time-consuming tape backups and slow recoveries—one server image could take two days to restore. Technology Director Patrick Bernotas needed a more reliable, low-cost backup and disaster recovery solution to protect critical student, server, telecom and communications data.

They deployed a Unitrends Recovery 818S appliance to protect their fully virtualized Windows environment. The 1U appliance delivered easy setup, low TCO, ransomware protection and full DR capabilities—enabling backups of server images and VMware snapshots—and reduced recovery time dramatically: a ransomware-infected financial server was restored in 15 minutes.

Taylor Community School Corporation

Patrick Bernotas

Technology Director