The District has turned to technology to help enhance physical security by placing video surveillance cameras in hallways and around the school perimeter.
Working in partnership with the District’s IT team, DynTek deployed VMware ESX, HP EVA and a wireless virtual local area network, to enable local police to access video footage directly from squad cars. The storage area network has provided the capacity the District needed to maintain an archive of its footage. The District’s IT staff now has the facility to create virtual services out of the physical IT infrastructure, allowing administrators to allocate these virtual resources to optimize the infrastructure in real-time.
Charles Dedrick, superintendent of Cohoes City School District, said: Cohoes City School District is the first district in upstate New York to leverage virtualization to create a cost-effective and manageable approach to allocate and scale our technical resources. We have found that this single technology project helped us meet multiple District objectives and state mandates, enabling us to stretch budget dollars to their maximum effect. DynTek also helped us create a more secure environment, both physically and digitally, that serves as the platform for communication between faculty, parents and staff.
