Keeping one step ahead of tech savvy students!

Peter Dinham
Monday, 06 April 2009 09:13

IT Industry - Deals

According to Sean Walsh, as well as security benefits, AppSense is also providing St Andrew's students and staff with an improved experience when accessing the school network remotely to complete or mark assignments.

“By reducing the size of users' Citrix profiles, home users with a dial-up or slow internet connection can still access their personal settings remotely.”

Walsh also says St Andrew's is using AppSense to dramatically improve its server capacity, and he says that by accommodating up to 60% more users per server, the college has been able to switch off a number of unused servers, saving space and energy while ultimately reducing running costs.

And, Walsh claims that the use of unauthorised software is a primary factor in destabilising user environments, and the costs associated with rectifying IT systems that are corrupted by rogue executables can be significant.
 
“Regardless of how a user's environment is delivered, it is essential that they receive only the applications they require and cannot introduce unknown executables into the environment. AppSense Management Suite gives IT managers the control over their systems, while delivering an improved user experience - it's win win."