As one of the world’s top educational boarding schools, Wellington College combines the best traditions and values of the past with the energy and ambition of the present. With over 1,100 students and staff using more than 3,500 mobile devices every day, the exchange of email is enormous.
IT communication amongst pupils, and staff alike, is fundamental to a modern school’s success. A large amount of parental communication is carried out via email, and pupils use email as a means of submitting coursework, while staff use it to provide student feedback.
Over the years, Wellington College has accumulated over six terabytes of email data. This data needs to be transmitted and stored across the network daily, as compliance requirements dictate suitable storage and recovery. Additionally, the regular transmitting of this huge amount of data has the negative impact of slowing down network performance. While the ‘physical’ storage requirements for archiving the information are considerable.
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