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Chris Page - Technical Development Manager Dan Pilling - Microsoft

Doing more with less. Chris Page - Technical Development Manager Dan Pilling - Microsoft. Introduction. Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder. Chris Page – Warwickshire LA.

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Chris Page - Technical Development Manager Dan Pilling - Microsoft

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

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

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

  4. School Trumps Secondary School Small business Source: BECTA and JN Research 2007 Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

  5. What is 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 Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Presentation Virtualization Desktop Virtualization Application Virtualization Server Virtualization Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

  6. Warwickshire LA and SoftGrid Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder • 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 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. Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

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

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

  9. Expanded availability of resources, and enhanced learning experiences Benefits to Using Softgrid 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 Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

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

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

  12. Conclusions Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder 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 Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

  13. Where to find out more Technology Blue Print www.microsoft.com/education/blueprint Microsoft SoftGrid www.microsoft.com/virtualization Online Labs http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb539977.aspx 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 Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

  14. Appendix

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

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

  17. School Trumps Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder 250 No. of IT Staff SMB No. of IT Staff Secondary School IT Budget 250 No. of PCs 250 No. of PCs 250 250 No. of IT Staff 820 No. of IT Staff No. of users No. of users IT Budget IT Budget Source: BECTA and JN Research 2007 Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

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

  19. Four Pillars of Virtualisation Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Image holder Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

  20. Microsoft Virtualization Products A comprehensive set of virtualization products, from the data center to desktop assets – both virtual and physical – are managed from a single platform Server Virtualization Presentation Virtualization Management Application Virtualization Desktop Virtualization

  21. BETT 2008 Presentations

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