Enhancing learning Customer profile capabilities for students Burgmann Anglican School maximises IT potential to connect students across locations Company Burgmann Anglican School Industry Education (K-12) Country Gungahlin, Australia Employees 140 Students 1500 Website www.burgmann.act.edu.au Business need Burgmann Anglican School needed to upgrade their existing IT infrastructure to support a growing student population with a dynamic learning environment. Solution The school deployed Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, Dell EqualLogic storage and Dell Interactive Projectors supported by Dell ProSupport™ with Next Business Day Onsite Response Service. Benefits • Achieves scalability of IT resources to support operational and curriculum delivery goals • Achieves operational efficiency with scalable, onsite support • Advances learning capabilities for students Solution areas • Connected Classroom “ I have reduced the carbon footprint in • Disaster Recovery • End User Computing my server room, and while the size of my • Intelligent Data Management server room limits the amount of equipment • Virtualization we can have, I can now do more with the same space.” Richard Bance, IT systems coordinator, Burgmann Anglican School Burgmann Anglican School is a co-educational independent school located in Gungahlin, Australia. The school comprises two campuses, the Valley campus, which offers education for children in preschool to Year 5 (aged 3-11 years) and in Years 9 to 12 (aged 14-19 years), and the Forde campus, which offers education for children in preschool to Year 2 (aged 3-8 years) and in Years 6-8 (aged 11-14 years). The school employs 140 staff providing education to 1500 students. When Burgmann Anglican School Scalable solution enables automation “ We’ve found that opened their Forde campus the of administrative processes school needed to ensure the IT The school can scale resources quickly students are more infrastructure would allow them to without adding more physical servers engaged with IT in connect the two campuses seamlessly to meet demand. With the improved and support the learning needs of performance the school can expand the classroom and the growing student population. the delivery of administrative functions Richard Bance, IT systems coordinator, such as payroll and school reports. so we incorporate Burgmann Anglican School, explains, Moreover, the SAN solution has built IT into our teaching “Our previous infrastructure was sized in features for creating snapshots for to meet the needs of the school quick recovery to protect and recover methods. The approximately a year ago. However data, ensuring that critical business the school has since doubled in size services continue in the event of an projectors enable and now has another campus. We infrastructure issue. us to employ a needed a scalable IT solution that would support the increased size of dynamic approach the school and meet our demands for to teaching and the next three to four years.” learning especially Reduces server footprint while seamlessly connecting both campuses in language classes With the role of IT within the school growing in importance, and IT because you can provided in both classroom and lab Technology at work visually explain environments, Burgmann Anglican School wanted a reliable solution with Services redundancy that would not expand many grammatical Dell™ Support Services the school’s server footprint while ™ exercises.” providing resilience for key systems. – Dell ProSupport with Next Business Day Onsite Ben Harris, deputy head middle Burgmann Anglican School deployed ™ Response Service school, Burgmann Anglican School Dell PowerEdge R710 servers with Intel® Xeon® Processors running Hardware VMware® vSphere™ 4 server software and a Dell EqualLogic PS 6010XV Dell EqualLogic PS6010XV storage area network (SAN) connected storage area network (SAN) by a 10GB storage fabric using Dell PowerEdge™ R710 servers PowerConnect™ 8024F switches. with Intel® Xeon® Processors Dell PowerConnect™ 8024F The virtualized infrastructure is enabling switches IT management across both sites, as well as maximizing space requirements. Dell S500 Ultra Short-Throw Bance notes, “I have reduced the Wireless Interactive Projector carbon footprint in my server room, Dell Vostro™ 3550 laptops and while the size of my server room Dell Mobile Computing Station limits the amount of equipment we can have, I can now do more with the same space.” 2 Encourages dynamic student classroom using the stylus remote learning through interactive and increase student participation by “ Dell Support Services projectors in the classrooms allowing work to be shown from a Burgmann Anglican School has moved student’s computer onto the screen. are the best that I to standardize their IT infrastructure Student discussion about a subject that have experienced onto a single platform environment. is displayed visually is much higher, and All senior students make use of Dell notes written on the screen can be and through reliable Vostro™ 3550 laptops during class time, printed out for the students to keep.” and at the Forde campus the middle onsite support I am school classrooms (Years 6 to 8) have Further integrates technology into assured that I can Dell S500 Wireless Ultra Short-Throw students’ learning processes through Interactive Projectors installed. reliable support keep the school Supported by Dell ProSupport™ with The school wanted to implement Next Business Day Onsite Response running.” projectors to encourage dynamic Service, Burgmann Anglican School Richard Bance, IT systems learning into the classroom. The can now plan for further integration of coordinator, Burgmann Anglican teaching of language is one such technology into the students’ learning School subject that can be enhanced process. The school has recently through the dynamic way information piloted and implemented a Dell Mobile is presented using an interactive Computing Station housing Dell Vostro projector. Ben Harris, deputy head 3550 laptops for senior students. middle school, Burgmann Anglican School, explains, “We’ve found that Due to the reliable service experienced students are more engaged with IT in through Dell, the school is able to the classroom and so we incorporate extend the level of support they provide IT into our teaching methods. The to their students in turn. “If I had a room projectors enable us to employ a full of spare parts, equipment and the dynamic approach to teaching and staff, I still couldn’t provide the support learning especially in language classes level that we have now from Dell. The because you can visually explain many amount of equipment the school has grammatical exercises.” may have increased, but the quality of service provided has remained the In conjunction with the school’s online same. Dell Support Services are the learning management system, the best that I have experienced and interactive projectors are allowing through reliable onsite support I am staff and students to access school assured that I can keep the school resources at any time and share work running,” Bance concludes. in the classroom, which is providing new ways of learning. Harris confirms, “Teachers can move freely around the View all Dell case studies at: www.dell.com/casestudies Availability and terms of Dell Services vary by region. For more information, visit dell.com/servicedescriptions 3 November 2011. © Dell Inc. Dell is a trademark of Dell Inc. Intel and Intel Xeon are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. 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