chris page - technical development manager dan pilling - microsoft doing more with less
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Chris Page - Technical Development Manager
Dan Pilling - Microsoft
Doing more with less
Introduction
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Dan Pilling - Microsoft Chris Page – Warwickshire LA
Top Trumps
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School Trumps
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Source: BECTA and JN Research 2007
No. of PCs 250No. of IT Staff 2.4No. of Users 820IT Budget £62,000
No. of Logins per month
25,000
No. of PCs 250No. of IT Staff 5No. of Users 250IT Budget £750,000
No. of Logins per month
12,500
Secondary School Small business
What is Virtualization?
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Desktop Virtualization
Presentation Virtualization
Server Virtualization Application Virtualization
“Virtualization is a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources to simplify the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources.” – Source www.about.com
Warwickshire LA and SoftGrid
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November 2006 Pilot run until March 2007March 2007 licensed SoftGrid for 173 SchoolsBy September 2007 deployed on 4,487 PCsFor example in The Avon Valley School (1069 pupils aged 11-
16 years)
“SoftGrid has made our IT environment extremely flexible and saved us significant costs. Once an application has been sequenced it can be accessed by users anywhere in minutes. SoftGrid has also allowed us to have more control over our licensing because we can limit how many users can run an application.” said David Banton, network manager.
Virtualized Application
Virtualized Application
How it Works
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Installed Applications Virtualized Applications
How it Works
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Sequencing Application Virtualized
Application
Expanded availability of resources, and enhanced learning experiences
Benefits to Using Softgrid
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Flexibility – Administrators and Teachers can select specific software to their classes on any machine in the school
Flexibility - Easier test applicationsFlexibility - Frees up ICT staffs time to concentrate on
other areas such as supporting teaching and learningFlexibility - Reduced downtime of PCs used for
teaching
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Network Diagram for a school
Applications on Demand Within a Secondary School
LA: Applications Pushed to Clients
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Conclusions
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This is relatively new to education and worth investigating
At Warwickshire LA they have reduced infrastructure management costs and freed up time for their ICT Staff
Virtualization through SoftGrid can be used to test new software in a risk free environment
It can be used to introduce new software such as Office without swapping for a previous version
You can do more with less
Where to find out more
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Technology Blue Printwww.microsoft.com/education/blueprint
Microsoft SoftGridwww.microsoft.com/virtualization
Online Labshttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb539977.aspx
Partners
RM Stand C60/D60 and the Microsoft StandTeksys Microsoft StandCitrix Microsoft StandComputacenter Stand M49 and the Microsoft StandCore Stand J60 and the Microsoft StandAkhter Stand E46 and the Microsoft Stand
Appendix
Warwickshire LEA and Softgrid
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DemoXbox Vs PC Game
Reviewing your IT Strategy
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School Trumps
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SMBSecondary School
No. of PCsNo. of PCs 250250
250
No. of IT Staff
No. of IT Staff No. of IT Staff
No. of IT Staff
No. of users
Source: BECTA and JN Research 2007
No. of users
IT Budget
IT Budget IT Budget
250
250820
Objectives
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Think:
•We(MS) have products and solutions over and above Vista and Office that help to facilitate learning.
•“I (or my ICT team) should look at virtualisation as part of the IT strategy as there maybe some benefits in doing so”
Actions:
•Investigate/Ask IT to investigate Softgrid/virtualisation
•Look into the IO Blueprints on the web
•Speak to partners about virtualisation
Four Pillars of Virtualisation
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Server Virtualization
Application VirtualizationDesktop
Virtualization
Presentation Virtualization
Management
A comprehensive set of virtualization products, from the data center to desktop assets – both virtual and physical – are managed from a single platform
Microsoft Virtualization Products
BETT 2008
Presentationswww.microsoft.com/uk/education/livemeetings
Thursday 31st January
3:30 to 4:15pm
Reducing those hidden costs – a new way to deploy applications
Warwickshire LA – Application
Virtualisation