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Montgomery, Texas School District Implement Citrix Desktop and Server Virtualization
Dec 17, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Citrix Systems, Inc. announced that Montgomery Independent School District (ISD), located north of Houston, Texas, has implemented a multi-phased program to modernize and virtualize its academic computing systems using Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenServer.
According to a release, the first phase of Montgomery ISD's implementation utilized XenServer to virtualize and consolidate their servers in a central datacenter; phase two, now under way, expands that deployment to standardize on desktop virtualization district-wide with XenDesktop. The school district has already realized significant savings in time, energy, money and personnel resources, and expects to expand these savings further in the future, Citrix noted in a release.
With a limited number of information technology (IT) staff available to serve more than 6,500 students across Montgomery ISD's eight schools, on-site service visits consumed hours of each week, according to a release. XenDesktop, the company said, allows the district's IT team to create a single instance of the OS and applications in the datacenter and deliver personalized desktops to classrooms on any PC, laptop or thin client device. XenDesktop delivers centrally managed, high-definition, virtual desktops to the district's existing PCs, providing all the advantages of centralized management without the high cost of investing in new hardware, Citrix said.
"Many problems that would have caused us to send out a technician can now be fixed from our desks. We've reduced response time to issues from one week to usually just one to two days for our virtual desktop users," said George Thornton, Montgomery ISD network operations manager.
"Imagine a student who is unable to attend classes for an extended period of time because of medical reasons. This will allow them an opportunity to keep up with their schoolwork," said Thornton.
"The expense of powering and cooling our datacenter was costing us as much as it was to outfit it. With XenServer, we've reduced the number of physical servers by a ratio of 10 to one. Now each physical server can run an average of 10 virtual servers while using a fraction of the energy," said Thornton.
More Information:
http://www.citrix.com
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