Background Guilsborough School is a co-educational academy in Northamptonshire, England, with 1,340 students for years 7 to 13 (ages 11 to 18). As a specialist technology college, its curriculum emphasizes design technology, mathematics and science. Guilsborough is one of few secondary schools in the country that equips all students with a netbook and campus-wide network with 50 wireless access points. Servers and SAN Storage Overwhelmed The servers and SAN storage at Guilsborough School were straining to keep up with the growth in application workloads and number of devices accessing the network. The school maintains a virtual learning environment for students based mainly on Microsoft technologies. As netbooks were rolled out for all students over the last two years, the numbe

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