Beacon City Schools

“I had a district vision and Dell took that vision and transformed it until we got the right products and applications into it. We were even able to get the Dell Latitude 2100s in yellow and blue — our school colors. Everyone loves them.”

— Charlie Symon, assistant superintendent for media and operations, Beacon City School District

Beacon City School District needed a way to upgrade its aging data center while improving its delivery of applications. The goal was to create a virtualized data center, including new user services, storage and disaster recovery capabilities as well as additional laptops in classrooms.

The district deployed about 300 Dell™ Latitude™ netbooks with Intel® Atom™ processors running Stoneware Web-based learning applications to its Beacon High School students.

By working with Dell, Beacon City School District realized the following benefits:

• Four-fold faster deployment through Dell Services
• Up to two weeks of reclaimed learning time per school year
• Disaster recovery in hours instead of days
• Near-zero learning curve for 300 new netbooks and Web-based software
• 20 percent savings in power usage
• Wireless netbook solution deployed without added IT staff