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Citrix XenApp Case Study - Local Government
Surrey County Council
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New Horizon Project delivers benefits for mobile and office
workers
"Centralis’
proven track record in delivering Citrix-based solutions in
complex environments was key to the success of the project”
Peter Sullivan, Technical
Architect at Surrey County Council
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Case Study
Features: Citrix XenApp, Citrix Edgesight,
Flexible Working, Centralis Consultancy & Bespoke
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Summary
Surrey County Council is working with Centralis to roll out a new
desktop strategy for 8,000 users, ten per cent of whom are mobile.
Underpinned by Citrix, the implementation will result in Surrey County
Council replacing more than half of its existing 6,000 desktops across
300 sites with thin-client terminals during 2009.
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“ We
recognised that our desktop strategy was becoming unwieldy and
out-of-date and we needed to ensure that application upgrade and
management costs didn’t escalate. "
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Peter Sullivan, Technical Architect, Surrey County Council
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About the
Customer
Surrey County Council provides services to 1.1
million Surrey residents, and its Information Management and Technology
(IMT) department delivers IT to 8,000 users. Surrey County Council is ranked number 83 in CIO
Magazine's Top 100 users of IT in the UK. With services covering
education, health, environmental services, social service and fire and
rescue, the authority covers over 300 sites for I.T. use across the
county.
The
Challenge
The Council required a new system to replace a legacy
environment built on PCs running Windows 2000. Owing to a growing
need for users to be more mobile and performance issues at some sites,
and to reduce power requirements and costs, the County Council found
that it needed a different solution.
The Local Authority also uses SAP for finance,
procurement and HR and when a client upgrade was required, the software
was too big to roll out using traditional methods.
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" Centralising all our servers and file storage in one place will
improve accessibility and productivity levels. "
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Peter Sullivan, Technical Architect, Surrey County Council
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The Centralis
Solution
Centralis worked with the Local Authority to plan,
design and implement a Citrix server farm capable of delivering core
applications to both fat and thin client platforms, in a project named
“Citrix New Horizons”.
Built on Citrix XenApp™, Enterprise Edition and
Citrix® EdgeSight®,, Surrey County Council also uses bespoke Centralis
software and virtual channels for content redirect. As a result, the
County Council now has a dynamic data centre running 205 virtual
servers, operating Citrix over VMware in a hosted environment designed
by Centralis.
The
Benefits to the Customer
The Local Authority is planning to implement a mobile
solution on top of this that will improve performance levels for mobile
workers while helping to cut costs across the organisation. The system
will be compatible with Government Connect security requirements.
“Surrey County Council is one of the largest and most
progressive Local Authorities in the country. It is imperative that its
IT systems are flexible, agile and secure to allow it to continue
providing first-class services into the next decade and beyond,” said
Rob Greenslade, sales director at Centralis.
“We recognised that our desktop strategy was becoming
unwieldy and out-of-date and we needed to ensure that application
upgrade and management costs didn’t escalate,” said Peter Sullivan,
technical architect at Surrey County Council. “Operating across 300
sites, we also needed a greater degree of flexibility.
Centralising all our servers and file storage in one
place will improve accessibility and productivity levels – Centralis’
proven track record in delivering Citrix-based solutions in complex
environments was key to the success of the project.”
Multimedia
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News Coverage:
http://www.itpro.co.uk/611764/council-broadens-horizons-with-virtualisation-project
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2244520/surrey-seeks-desktop-horizons
http://www.publictechnology.net/content/20437
http://www.cbronline.com/news/surrey_council_searches_horizon_for_new_desktop_strategy_240609
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