Education : Reaping real rewards and savings from virtual desktops

More than half the schools in England are facing cuts to their budgets.

The need to keep our universities at the fore front of Technology, whilst cutting costs, improving security, and reducing the Carbon footprint has made the Zero Client offering a must for those wishing to streamline their IT infrastructure.

Fujitsu, the third largest IT organisation in the world, have recognised this and are leading the way with an emerging “Zero Client” desktop virtualisation technology which promises to deliver savings and substantially improve your return on investment.

Our leading Universities have already invested in server and storage virtualisation which has helped to create much leaner IT environments in recent years, however,most Universities still work with fat client desktop systems that are not cost effective, have a large carbon footprint and are challenging to manage, support and maintain. From a security perspective, Universities in their current state have to allocate a vast amount of resource and time to keep networks secure.

Tracline and Fujitsu in partnership with VMware have launched the Fujitsu Zero Client solution which addresses all of the above problem sets; a front end device that runs exclusively in a desktop virtualisation environment, minimizing both the use of components and the necessity to manage and maintain.

Low cost desktop hardware and a streamlined roll out process help to keep start up costs low and deployment very efficient, however, the real business benefits are massively reduced support and administration costs, power consumption, excellent reliability, long device life cycles and centralised management which affects required infrastructure positively.

A zero client strategy saves costs throughout its lifetime