Just posted on our web site is a case study about the Emanuel County School District in Georgia.

In brief, the Emanuel County School District had recently consolidated their architecture from seven locations to one but quickly found that they were outgrowing this new data center. One option for Emanuel County was to physcially expand the location, which was an expensive proposition. Instead, they wisely invested in a virtualization solution using both Virtual Iron and LeftHand Networks.

The end result? Servers were cut in half, a disaster recovery plan was put in place and money was saved.

Some of the applications running in their new virtualized environment (which runs both Windows and Linux on the same servers): an e-mail archive system, Zenworks Configuration Management, eDirectory services, Novell OES2, SASI Student Information System and Novell GroupWise.

For more information, see the case study. A more complete case study is available in PDF here.