The Blue Springs School District The Blue Springs School District consists of 22 elementary, middle, and high schools located on the eastern edge of Kansas City, Missouri. The district currently employs nearly 1,000 teachers and 2,000 staff, with an enrollment of over 14,500 students. IT Challenges “Our district has a rich tradition of academic excellence,” noted Tim Jones, IT Director for the Blue Springs School District. “One of the ways we achieve this is through continued investments in new technologies. Our biggest challenge in achieving this goal was related to our distributed IT environment. We were running separate data centers at each of our school locations. Our team was managing a mix of Dell servers, with two domain controllers and data storage for staff and stude

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