Bishop Lynch High School in Dallas, TX, Chooses Datrium DRaaS

Datrium, Inc. announced that Bishop Lynch High School in Dallas, TX, has selected the company to secure its IT infrastructure from disasters and ransomware using its DRaaS and built-in cloud backup.

By replacing its legacy backup solution with DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS, which delivers reduced RTO and ransomware recovery, the school reached new thresholds for performance, improving both RPO and RTO. The DR solution reduced IT costs providing quality to a price point, improved service and increased the IT team’s productivity while combating disasters.

Bishop Lynch High School is known for its college preparatory environment and ability to drive academic excellence; its IT department mirrors this same rigor from a service perspective in its approach to protect its infrastructure and data. The IT team sought a simpler, smarter DR and backup solution to protect its systems from future disasters and be able to recover rapidly. It selected Datrium after being for the ingenuity of Datrium’s disaggregated HCI (DHCI) solution and the platform’s ability to achieve DR with built-in backup and encryption in the cloud.

“The way Datrium integrated their new technology into our old data center and moved the server load to the new ESXi host and storage was so clever. It turned into a VMware VM migration effort where both the previous system and the Datrium system were visible,” said Gray Huggins, director of technology, Bishop Lynch High School. “The VMs were migrated through the standard approach of VM migration for server and CPU migration. We were able to bring over all of the VMs from our previous environment to the Datrium environment, from the old servers to the new servers, and we didn’t have any downtime. We were absolutely stunned and it was almost embarrassingly simple.“

Before deploying Datrium, IT team would spend several hours troubleshooting problems with backup and replication and had to cut down its long RTO period of 1 week to 4 hours and RPO period of 24 hours to 60 minutes. With DRaaS instant RTO and built-in cloud backup capabilities, the school eliminated nightly backup debugging which reduced costs and runs cleaner and faster backups, improved IO/s performance and has exceeded its RTO and RPO goals.

“The overall service level that we get with Datrium DRaaS makes this a very worthwhile investment. It’s going to bring us a lot more of something that’s always in short supply in IT: peace of mind,” said Huggins.

“Cost pressures are especially of major concern for educational institutions and IT shouldn’t be a burden on the bottom line,” said Tim Page, CEO, Datrium. “Datrium DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS has simplified DR for Bishop Lynch High School and its cloud-based, pay on-demand model has dramatically reduced the financial burden. The IT team can now be confident in combating ransomware and other disasters knowing it can recover instantly.“

Case study: Bishop Lynch High School Improves RTO and RPO