SKT/West VDI Case Study - Derby Schools

Derby Public Schools, in Derby, Kansas, a city of 25,000 people, has over 6,000 students, 1,400 employees, and a daily average of 7,000 users on desktops, laptops, PCs, and Macs in four support buildings, and nine elementary and three secondary schools. Derby had an outdated, expensive, and inefficient infrastructure of different kinds of old and new desktops, many underutilized physical servers, and applications loaded onto the hard drives of desktops located in many different buildings. It was difficult for Derby Schools’ small IT department to meet curriculum goals for technology and education, and maintain the complex distributed computing environment in good times. The situation became even more daunting when the economy slowed and state education funding was scaled back.

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Citrix Releases XenServer 5.5

Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of XenServer 5.5 and Citrix Essentials 5.5 for XenServer and Hyper-V. Some new features include: Active Directory Authentication Snapshots built into XenCenter and CLI Backup Enablement LVHD Support

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Understanding Microsoft Licensing for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environment

When it comes to virtualization, VDI has been one of the hottest topics and fastest growing areas for companies. The VDI solution allows for IT staff to centralize their apps, desktops, and data securely in the data center, while only a device containing a small footprint exists at the client end. These centralized advantages allow for a reduction in IT administration costs, power and cooling costs for PCs, and overall reduction in PC cost when converting to thin clients or extending a desktop refresh beyond the three year mark.

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