Overview Pflugerville Independent School District, a fast- growing K-12 district in T exas, was faced with moving its operation from a legacy SAN and server hardware environment to a new SAN and Virtual Server installation. Challenge At the time, its existing backup system had be come unreliable and inconsistent and was based on tape libraries. The tape libraries were out of warranty and started to require maintenance. The amount of data to back up had grown to the point that during the backup window there was not sufficient time to complete all the backup jobs necessary. The system, although once “state of the art,” was now slow, cumber- some to use, and unreliable. Backed up emails were difficult, at best, to retrieve. It was imperative that the district have a reliable ba

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