TRING PARK SCHOOL FOR THE
PERFORMING ARTS STANDS
ABOUT
TRING PARK SCHOOL
The school provides a unique community for talented young people, regardless of means or background, who have a passion for Dance, Drama, Musical Theatre or Music. The school still recognises the benefits of a fine academic education and offers GCSE, AS and A Level national curriculum courses.
THE
STORY
Over the last decade, the school has grown considerably, from less than 40 PCs to over 200 machines spread across almost every department. As IT Manager Stuart Cook explains: “We only have a two-man team and we are pretty much multi-skilled, but what we needed was the ability to draw on specialist experts to help with projects and ad-hoc troubleshooting.” After speaking with several IT support companies, he says, “we selected help4IT, as they were just much more engaged and responsive, and came up with innovative ways to reuse our existing investments,” adds Stuart
THE
help4IT EFFECT
With a growing network of PCs, the first project the school turned to help4IT for was the implementation of a virtualisation plan and the design of a SAN to help protect critical school data and student coursework. Using an economical combination of software tools and clever design to reuse the schools existing server capacity, help4IT managed to deliver a reliable SAN solution within the tightest of budgets. Over the last few years, help4IT has also helped with Microsoft Exchange migration projects and a campus-wide network upgrade.
WHAT
THEY SAY
ABOUT US
“help4IT has consistently delivered a professional and extremely responsive service to us,” says Cook. “There have been times when we have had real emergencies and they XSXShave responded quickly – even out of hours – to help us solve tricky problems.” The school is now planning a software update rollout and Wireless network upgrade with help4IT and Stuart, who has been working in IT for over 10 years, notes that “with help4IT, we are not just dumped into a call centre – the team is extremely approachable and we now consider them a long term trusted partner.”
