Case Study: Lamar County School District achieves rapid recovery and peace of mind with Unitrends

Lamar County School District - Customer Case Study

Lamar County Schools, a growing K–12 district in southern Mississippi, needed a reliable, automated backup solution to protect student and employee data across a mixed environment of 20 VMware virtual servers and 5 physical Windows servers. The district’s previous manual disk-based backups were ineffective and put operations at risk, so Director of Technology Ross Randall sought a simpler, more dependable way to ensure data security and fast recovery.

The district deployed two Unitrends Recovery 814S appliances—one primary in the data center and a secondary secured at a school site about 30 miles away that syncs for redundancy. The solution delivered rapid restores (notably recovering a primary domain controller in minutes), improved data protection, low total cost of ownership, and the operational peace of mind Randall needed to keep schools running.

Lamar County School District

Ross Randall

Director of Technology