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Harrisonville Schools Partner with AOS for Email and Data Archiving Needs
The Harrisonville Cass R-IX School District’s mission is to achieve excellence
in education. True to its creed, Harrisonville has been honored by the
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for Distinction
in Performance the past two years. The district is home to approximately
2,300 students grades K—12, with an impressive student-to-teacher ratio of
17:1.
Harrisonville Cass R-IX School District partnered with AOS to resolve an issue
they faced regarding the need to add more storage to an existing EMC
Clarion SAN. AOS suggested adding Email Extender and Disk Extender
instead of increasing storage. David Vignery, Director of Technology,
thought this was the best solution from both a cost and management
perspective.
“This decision has been great for our management of the data and it has cut
our storage size of the network in half. Without a doubt this was the best
decision for our district to make. Not only has it helped in saving storage
space but it has also helped us to put in place an email retention policy. We
are capturing all of our emails and archiving them for 5 years. All of this is
possible due to the fact that we added Email and Disk Extender instead of
adding storage,” David explained.
Doug Hanshaw, AOS account manager for the district adds, “Many school
districts today are faced with the challenge of retaining email and data files
for legal purposes. Email Extender and Disk Extender provide clients such as
Harrisonville with the capability to easily archive and retrieve important
information in a very short amount of time. In the past, this process was
quite cumbersome.”
Harrisonville has partnered with AOS for many years. David commented on
our long relationship. When asked of any weaknesses, David said that “AOS
has not shown many weaknesses in the last 5 years of doing business. Everyone makes mistakes and this would be a weakness if AOS did not care,
but they have always backed everything they do for us. So I would say again
that I do not have a weakness to talk about regarding AOS.”
“AOS and Harrisonville are a model for how we like to conduct business.
Together we developed a plan and this is yet another successful phase that
will allow this school district to streamline their operations,” Hanshaw adds.
David “would like to thank AOS for what they bring to the table every time
[Harrisonville is] looking for a solution.” |