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Pure Storage + Spring Branch ISD

Building Resilience at the Local Level

When this independent school district suffered the same widespread outage as others across the globe, the Spring Branch ISD was back up and running in one weekend with help from Veeam and the Pure Storage platform.

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Challenges
The IT staff at Spring Branch ISD serve 50,000 users and manage 100,000 devices running disparate workloads including ERP, student information, and phone systems, plus SQL servers and various education-specific applications. When a third-party software update created an unplanned global outage and the primary storage lead was two hours away, the team was faced with recovering data. They soon discovered they could not restore many of the district's Hyper-V virtual machines following standard procedures.
Results
Using the previous night's Veeam backups on the Pure Storage platform, the IT team was able to restore operations quickly. By the end of the weekend, they had restored all systems while other organizations were still down. Because the IT team is cross-trained, the cybersecurity and infrastructure teams were able to communicate seamlessly and make fast decisions without the primary lead onsite.
Terabytes
80
recovered quickly, efficiently, and completely
Cost Savings
30%
estimated compared to previous storage vendor
Cross-training
100%
Pure Storage and Veeam

Introduction

Spring Branch ISD uses Pure Storage FlashBlade® as the primary backup repository for Veeam backups. These backups are then copied to Pure Storage FlashArray//C™, which is located at the district's disaster recovery site. Backups are secured with immutable and indelible SafeMode™ Snapshots from Pure Storage. Built-in cybersecurity from Pure Storage helps the school district comply with legal requirements for protecting PII.

Spring Branch ISD Quote

“I would stake my career and reputation on Pure Storage with Veeam. Together they exceeded our expectations on every front: performance, resiliency, and simplicity.”

Ben Allen

Lead Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity and Operations, Spring Branch ISD

Pure Storage + Veeam

About Veeam and Pure Storage

Integrated solutions from Veeam® and Pure Storage help customers meet the needs of today’s applications and data-driven world by delivering on-premises, cloudlike capabilities with superior data protection and business continuity.

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