School Loop is an online educational platform that offers various tools and features to improve communication and streamline daily operations within schools. This website allows teachers to create and manage virtual classrooms, post assignments, grade student work, and communicate with parents. Students can access their assignments, submit their work, and track their progress. Additionally, parents can stay updated on their child's academic performance, communicate with teachers, and receive school notifications. School Loop aims to enhance collaboration, foster engagement, and improve overall efficiency in the educational system.

As such, it needed a partner with expertise in both Google Cloud and the legacy system, which it found in Nortal.cloud.google.comBefore the migration, School Loop was running on a legacy system that was not cloud compatible and required specialized migration tooling.

With Nortal’s guidance, School Loop migrated 37 databases and billions of files over several weeks with only three hours of downtime in the final three hours.cloud.google.comNortal made the transition easier through its custom migration tool that was able to help move School Loop’s legacy database system with countless small files.

On Google Cloud, these failures can be solved with a simple update and reboot instead of having to purchase and install additional servers, thus resulting in virtually no outages or disruptions.cloud.google.comSchool Loop ran into service outages caused by efforts to automate memory management that could exceed the memory capabilities of its legacy servers on a weekly basis.