About Ampleforth Ampleforth is a picturesque village on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. Since 1802, it’s been home to Ampleforth College, a coeducational, independent day and boarding school. The college is run by the Benedictine monks and lay staff of Ampleforth Abbey, and has an affiliated preparatory school, St.Martin’s Ampleforth, located across the valley at Gilling Castle. Desperate Need of Modernization When Richard Baynes joined Ampleforth as IT Services Manager in 2013, he discovered that the IT infrastructure had suffered from a long period of neglect and was in desperate need of modernization. Richard comments: “For the first 12 months, I focused all my efforts on stabilizing the network. Physical servers, hardware and software were out of support, and w

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