Hell Hath Frozen Over!Florida Virtual Schools:

How One Enterprise Embraced the Public Cloud

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Introductions

Sean Finnegan

Global Sales Director, Mozy by EMC

John Roebuck

Senior Manager, ITFlorida Virtual Schools

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• About Us

• Our Challenge

– Struggled for years w/ external hard drive (EHD) backups

– Replacing a laptop took 1 week or more

– EHD adoption was low

– Teachers would lose critical data

– Frustration all around

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The Solution

Administration Cost

Security & Reliability Features

DataProtection

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The Results

• Three months to roll out to2,000+ teachers

• 85% of teachers installed it themselves

• Delay in data restoration cutby 75% (4 days to 1 day)

• Cuts $70 shipping costs for each replacement

• Increases teachers efficiency.

“Now I can focus 100% on teaching!”

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My Life Now

• 4 TB of data protected/ managed by teachers (people centric vs. machine centric)

• Pooled data = only usewhat they need (English teachers need less data

than art teachers)

• Mozy Admin Console prepares detailed reports

4TBProtected

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What Makes It All Worth It

Christine’s Story: Teacher’s family faces disaster• Fire destroyed home• FLVS laptop lost in the fire• Teacher needed to work • Through cloud solution we had a machine

to her within a couple of hours