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“The HP solution delivered by OCSL provides a reliable and scalable  
platform to deliver quality educational services within a challenging and 
dynamic environment. A high-quality infrastructure with no downtime is 
absolutely essential for our teaching methods and it supports important 
revenue streams.” Robert Cullen, IT director, Thomas Telford School, UK
 
Thomas Telford School (TTS), the UK’s top performing 
City Technical College (CTC), is a comprehensive 
school catering for the educational needs of 1300 
students aged between 11 and 18. The college’s 
catchment area includes Telford and Wolverhampton 
and the surrounding villages and suburbs. The 
success of the School’s online learning company 
has enabled Thomas Telford School to sponsor and 
build three new technology driven City Academies 
within the last six years. These include Walsall 
Academy, Sandwell Academy in West Bromwich and 
Madeley Academy, also in Telford. CTCs specialise 
in technical-based subjects such as technology, 
science and mathematics, and forge close links with 
businesses and industry.
Objective: 
Thomas Telford School (TTS) needed to equip a 
new state of the art data centre within its latest 
new Build Project – Madeley Academy and also 
consolidate its own server estate, introduce 
virtualisation and improve storage capacity to 
deliver educational services more efficiently.       
Approach:
• Deployed HP ProLiant server and StorageWorks 
technologies within a virtualised environment. 
IT improvements: 
Increased server utilisation ensures good service 
• 
availability at peak times. 
Energy saving servers combat potential power 
• 
constraints.   
Consolidation creates a scalable platform for 
• 
future business needs.
Improved service delivery strengthens the  
• 
learning experience.
Safeguards important revenue-generating  
• 
activities.  
Business outcomes: 
Reliable, scalable, high-availability server and 
• 
storage environments.
Virtualisation with VMware ESX consolidated the 
• 
server estate by 75 per cent.
Enterprise-level storage safeguards important 
• 
data. 
HP customer success story: Thomas Telford School deploys an HP solution to create a 
consolidated, virtualised server environment with enhanced storage capability  
Industry: Education
Thomas Telford School stays top-of-the-class 
with HP server and storage technologies