Curriculum Network Solutions
Meeting Challenges
Against a backdrop of budgetary constraint, Secondary Schools are faced with increasing demands on IT resources.
In the race to embrace modern equipment in the classroom or in the server room, the key component of infrastructure has often been overlooked with schools still harbouring 10mbps switches or even hubs on their networks!
Coniston IT is working with Secondary Schools to deliver solutions to the following challenges::
Speed issues at the start and end of lessons sessions.
Speed issues created when transferring ever increasing graphic files around the network.
Managing the rapid growth in data storage requirements
Secure backups for student curriculum data and coursework
Security and management network usage
Management reporting of network usage.
How can we help?
Coniston IT helps schools face these challenges with proven solutions..
Specialist Education Systems Consultant
Our education specialists combine several years in the IT reseller business with previous appointments in Secondary School IT management. This understanding of the sector combined with the latest technologies deliver solutions tailored to meet individual school requirements.
St. Thomas More has been very pleased with both the standard of work carried out by Coniston IT and the manner in which that work has been carried out and we look forward to a continuing relationship with Coniston in order to maintain and develop our ICT infrastructure in the future.“
Nick Wood, St Thomas More School, Blaydon
Network Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the foundation on which the whole IT network is based and lack of focus in this area can cause huge bottlenecks.
Many school networks have been built in an ad-hoc fashion with sections added to the network as curriculum usage has grown. Reviewing network switching and infrastructure can deliver huge speed benefits which will help improve the user experience across the school.
Coniston are helping schools to take a strategic approach to improving their network infrastructure in order to meet curriculum demands and resolve costly speed issues.
Storage Area Network Solutions
We understand the ever increasing data storage requirement in the sector and have experience in delivering SAN technology that makes best use of the school budget to meet this demand. SAN technology also enables faster and more reliable secure backups to be taken of student data.
HP MSA 2000 Storage Array
Network Usage Management and Reporting
Coniston have been working with schools for many years and assisting IT managers with control of their network users and resources. It is our experience that the more automated this can become, it releases the schools IT technical team time to address the strategic development of the systems.
The Ranger for networks suite of software is used for this purpose which delivers significant benefits in control, reporting and automation of network security and control.
“Ranger gives levels of security; control and management that we need to maintain our Specialist College status and is helping us drive forward our ICT development.”
Noel Reynolds, Lawnswood School