RM Education Solutions Catalogue 2010 - RM plc

RM Shared Storage Solutions
RM Shared Storage Solutions
Are you ready?
Technology within schools is changing rapidly; current investments in ICT must
be future proofed and take into account the vast changes taking place in the
next few years. Already, the digital curriculum is increasing schools’ data by
25% a year and Virtual Learning Environments have changed the landscape of
modern teaching - but are you ready for what’s next?
Without a strong backbone and a sound infrastructure, you could struggle to
fulfill the growing needs of your network users - availability and reliability have
never been so important. RM Shared Storage Solutions, your one stop shop for
server, storage and backup products and services, allow you to manage this
data growth and prepare for the future.
What do you want from
your ICT platform?
? Minimal downtime
? Easy maintenance
? Future proof
? Enough space for growing
amount of data
? Secure data
? Ready for virtualisation
What’s
next?
Making the most
of your platform
Get the most from your platform with our
range of supporting products and services.
From educationally-focused software, to
training, support and guidance, we have
years of experience, which will ensure that
your solution is tailored to your school and
is ready to use from day one
What do you want to do with
your ICT platform?
? Flexibility to meet changing teaching
methods
? Secure data assessment
? Personalised learning & community
access
? Invest for the future to provide a
strong total cost of ownership
? Facilitate the use of media files as part
of the creative curriculum
RM Shared Storage Solutions – Get Ready!
Have a look at these typical examples of an RM solution for a primary and a secondary school
to see what your solution could look like.
A primary school solution
Designed for a school with approximately 200 pupils, 50 computers, two servers, 1TB of data and a part-time technician. The solution provides a
helping hand which gives the network manager time to establish a routine and unlock potential as they grow with the school.
RM Servers provide a stable
platform… and the process of
backup and restore is so much
quicker – what used to take hours
now only takes minutes or seconds.
Andrew Arnold, System Solutions Team Leader,
Staffordshire Learning Technologies
Desktop NAS
Centralise your storage
with this NAS to meet
your school’s growing data
needs and gain control
over your storage
• Up to 3TB usable space
• Four lockable hotswap
drives
• RAID configurations
available to ensure your
data is well protected
ecoquiet RM Serv
Designed to provide the networking benefits of a server
without the noise, the ecoquiet RM Serv provides a
comfortable teaching and learning environment.
• Space-saving tower chassis designed to fit in
classrooms
• Low power, low noise server and low heat
• Fully validated with Community Connect 3 and
Community Connect 4
Storage Servers Back-up
Internal back-up
Choose from the following:
• Hard disk drive back-up:
it’s faster, more robust
and doesn’t require any
cleaning tapes
• Tape: we offer industrystandard
options of LTO3
and LTO4
Storage
Get ready for the
storage explosion
with a centralised
storage solution. These
are reliable, tried &
tested and will prepare
you for future data growth
What are the benefits of a Shared Storage Solution?
Servers
Robust, reliable and fully
configurable servers. From
classroom-quiet servers to
those equipped to manage a
large number of clients and
virtualisation
Based on your feedback, we’ve designed RM Shared Storage Solutions with the
following commitments:
• An educational focus – We’ve carefully selected and developed products which
are perfect for education.
• Scalable to meet your needs - No school is the same, we’ll work through our wide
range of options with you to design a solution that meets your school’s needs.
• Support and guidance – From consultancy and training, to services and support,
we have a team with years of experience to support you.
• Reliable and secure – Our tried and tested solutions ensure that you can quickly
and safely access data with minimal downtime to give you peace of mind that your
data is safe.
• An infrastructure which provides a robust platform for the future - Our
solutions allow you to invest for the future, maximise resources (time, people and
money) and prepare for advances in technology, such as virtualisation.
Back-up
The RM back-up
solutions will give
you peace of mind
that your learner and
staff documents are
backed up and easily
recoverable in the event
of a failure
A secondary school solution
Designed for a school with approximately 1,000 pupils, 400 computers, ten servers, 3TB of data and a network manager with several technicians. This
solution provides more than a network; it provides a leading edge, flexible solution. All the resources are at the network manager’s finger tips, allowing
them to guide and mould the future of the school’s ICT.
RM SAN solutions
Centralising your storage with
a SAN is the ultimate futureproofing
solution.
• We’ve partnered with EMC,
the world’s largest storage
supplier.
• Supreme reliability, proven
to be available 99.999% of
the time
• Easily expandable to meet
future data growth
Everything is faster, stability is
better, there’s less downtime and
we are less stressed. We finally feel like
we aren’t just coping, we are taking
steps forward and progressing.
Alistair Hetherington, Netowrk Manager,
Longbenton Community College, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
The XL range
High performance and reliability for
demanding networks.
• Based on the Intel® 5500 chipset
• Fully validated with Community Connect
• Ready for virtualisation
Storage Servers Back-up
RM Disk to Disk to Tape Solution
Save time and money by centralising
your back-up.
• Based on the RM DiskBox, a
Tandberg LTO4 StorageLoader
and Symantec Backup Exec 12.5.
• A tried and tested method of
ensuring that your data is safe in
the event of a disaster.
For more information on how you can Get Ready, visit www.rm.com/sss
or call 0800 0197 982 to discuss your options
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