Sidmouth College Case Study Sidmouth College Sidmouth College is a Comprehensive Community College located in the southwest of the UK. The school has some 820 students in years 7 through 13, and around 120 staff. As a school with a specialist Technology status, they have recently introduced a number of new courses, including Media Studies. The challenge The school’s IT department uses a SAN (Storage Area Network) to store students’ work. These are high-performance but relatively expensive units which store upwards of 5Tb of data each. Students are granted network space on the basis of their year and subjects, with Media students receiving an allowance of up to 11Gb. Most students receive 2.5Gb and staff 6Gb. As available space was starting to run low, Network Manager Peter

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