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District tech directors brief board on network redundancy, cloud migration and high costs of full power redundancy
Summary
Technology leaders for Indian Prairie CUSD 204 presented a spring update to the Board of Education on April 7 outlining the district's network topology, cloud migration progress, failure points, and the cost trade-offs of full redundancy for power and Internet.
Technology leaders for Indian Prairie CUSD 204 presented a spring update to the Board of Education on April 7 outlining the district's network topology, cloud migration progress, failure points, and the cost trade-offs of full redundancy for power and Internet.
Rodney Mack, William Gray and Brian Grinstead described a two-data-center design and a network split that routes roughly half the district's buildings over one Internet pipe and half over another. They said about 80'90% of district systems have moved to cloud services, increasing reliance on Internet connectivity while reducing dependence on on-site servers.
Why it matters: With student information systems, email, classroom tools and other key services cloud-hosted, outages of Internet service or…
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