Largest Northeast Texas School District Transforms IT with EMC and VCE

  EMC Corporation today announced that Tyler Independent School District, the largest school district in Northeast Texas, selected EMC® and VCE solutions to transform how it builds, operates and delivers IT services to meet the straightway-generation educational needs of its more than 20,000 students and staff across 27 schools. Using a VCE Vblock® Infrastructure Platform - comprising EMC VNX? unified storage, Cisco UCS blade servers and VMware vSphere and VMware View -  Tyler ISD has completely transformed its entire IT infrastructure, operations and people to maximize the value of innovation inside and outside the classroom.

The need for change

To address the need for change, Tyler ISD engaged VCE and EMC Velocity Partner Presidio to transform its IT environment to a highly virtualized, at once-generation data center to provide its students with state of the art research services to help foster learning.  As part of its transformation, Tyler ISD has redefined the role of research in the classroom, refocusing staff from being technicians focused on maintenance and troubleshooting to becoming IT specialists with a vested stake in the education process.

Customer Quotes:John Orbaugh, Director of Research, Tyler Independent School District"The school environment today is rapidly becoming a 24x7 operation. We transformed our IT environment allowing us to focus on making innovation more accessible and flexible so that when students are ready to learn, explore and grow, the tools and information are there-whether they're in the classroom or at home."

The majority of their time performing maintenance

"Our virtualized IT infrastructure has freed our staff from spending the majority of their time performing maintenance and troubleshooting tasks and enabled them to shift their focus on more strategic initiatives. As an illustration, it used to take 200 hours annually to update all of the PCs in the district. Now, we're able to change one image and reboot all of our virtual desktops automatically - freeing up time to help faculty and staff better  to access and leverage innovation services in a more natural, meaningfully and easy way."

"We firmly believe that accessing and using IT services should be as easy as breathing. Having a new IT model that drives automation allows us to dedicate more resources to develop new applications and services just as using smart phones and other mobile devices to streamline some of the more mundane tasks for teachers, including taking attendance, which allows them to focus on educating the students instead of administrative tasks."

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About EMC EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset - information - in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.