Now, along with CA's software, a Quantum Corp. (NYSE: DSS) Super DLT tape, and a handful of Compaq Proliant 8500 servers, there is a central repository able to change backup tapes daily. "It will take 20 to 30 percent off of our storage budget annually," says Keith Johnson, HDSB's superintendent of education and information technology.
Johnson's future goal is to leverage this new backup for instructional purposes with the district's corporate affairs, "so we won't have to focus financial resources on the business side."
Another future endeavor will revolve around data-drive organization, he asserts, and the district has just begun to look at storage personalization companies that can customize and extract data. (He did not name names, but some of the larger North American players in this area are Overland Storage Inc. [Nasdaq: OVRL] and Advanced Digital Information Corp. [Nasdaq: ADIC].) "Being in an educational environment, we really would like to be able to manipulate this data and, at the same time, keep the system as seamless as possible." Johnson notes that Bell Canada (NYSE/Toronto: BCE), along with CA and Compaq, offers telecommunications services (a leased WAN and an Internet pipe) inside its IT architecture.
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