Green Guy Alert! We just profiled an interesting case study about a K-12 school that has deployed cloud networking in an interesting way. Here is the brief abstract - warning - Marketing Speak!
The teachers at Belgrave Heights Christian School in Melbourne, Australia need the ability grade papers, write reports, and prepare teaching materials from home. Historically, the teachers could only access the resources and files on the school’s server from inside the campus. Belgrave’s IT Manager, David Wilson looked at remote access solutions but was concerned about both security and expense. David saw the free Pertino trial and it appeared to work well on a few of his computers.
David took a unique approach to testing new tools: he gave a group of Belgrave’s most advanced students some packet-sniffing tools and asked them to try hacking into several applications. The kids found holes in LogMeIn and Hamachi, but they could not make a dent in Pertino. David deployed the school’s new Pertino network on multiple staff members’ machines.
Today, Pertino’s cloud networking application is working well for the IT Manager: “I love using software that ‘just works’,” he says. “Pertino has been a great piece of software to install, setup, and use.” If David’s experience is any indication, cloud networking is a promising solution for educational institutions, in general. For Belgrave Heights Christian School, in particular, Pertino is top of its class.