Chris Page - Technical Development Manager Dan Pilling - Microsoft Doing more with less

Introduction Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards Dan Pilling - Microsoft Chris Page – Warwickshire LA

Top Trumps Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards

School Trumps Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards Source: BECTA and JN Research 2007 No. of PCs 250 No. of IT Staff 2.4 No. of Users 820 IT Budget £62,000 No. of Logins per month 25,000 No. of PCs 250 No. of IT Staff 5 No. of Users 250 IT Budget £750,000 No. of Logins per month 12,500 Secondary SchoolSmall business

What is Virtualization? Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards 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

Warwickshire LA and SoftGrid Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards November 2006 Pilot run until March 2007 March 2007 licensed SoftGrid for 173 Schools By September 2007 deployed on 4,487 PCs For example in The Avon Valley School (1069 pupils aged 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.

How it Works Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards Installed Applications Virtualized Applications

How it Works Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards Sequencing Application

Expanded availability of resources, and enhanced learning experiences Benefits to Using Softgrid Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards Flexibility – Administrators and Teachers can select specific software to their classes on any machine in the school Flexibility - Easier test applications Flexibility - Frees up ICT staffs time to concentrate on other areas such as supporting teaching and learning Flexibility - Reduced downtime of PCs used for teaching

Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards Network Diagram for a school Applications on Demand Within a Secondary School

LA: Applications Pushed to Clients Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards

Conclusions Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards 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 Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards Technology Blue Print Microsoft SoftGrid Online Labs Partners RM Stand C60/D60 and the Microsoft Stand Teksys Microsoft Stand Citrix Microsoft Stand Computacenter Stand M49 and the Microsoft Stand Core Stand J60 and the Microsoft Stand Akhter Stand E46 and the Microsoft Stand

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Warwickshire LEA and Softgrid Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards Demo Xbox Vs PC Game

Reviewing your IT Strategy Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards

School Trumps Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards SMB Secondary School No. of PCs 250 No. of IT Staff No. of users Source: BECTA and JN Research 2007 No. of users IT Budget

Objectives Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards 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 Image holder Personalised learning | 21 st Century skills | Raising standards

Server Virtualization Application Virtualization Desktop 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 Presentations Thursday 31 st January 3:30 to 4:15pm Reducing those hidden costs – a new way to deploy applications Warwickshire LA – Application Virtualisation