When Rialto Unified School District undertook a 1-to-1 program for its 26,000 students, the California school system knew an infrastructure update was in order. And the more those devices were being used for learning — not just during school, but after school, for Saturday school and deep into the summer — the smaller the windows became in which the IT organization could handle maintenance tasks. The district decided to try a new approach for refreshing the network. As Network Services Manager, Raul Maciel, explains, hyperconvergence not only delivered the flexibility IT sought, but boosted performance, added redundancy and kept the familiar management
interface staff members already knew well.
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