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How UK School’s can increase technology usage and decrease energy costs

Two trends which have helped to define the 21st century must be the fast paced development in technology and widespread concerns over sustainability.

From industrial to technological revolution, our society is a complex world where technology has reshaped how we live and work.  Preparation for this reality is an absolute and the way in which schools and their teachers function needs to keep up when delivering both a technology based curriculum and ensuring students achieve the skills and knowledge they need to function and compete when they leave the school environment.  That involves constant access to evolving technology and information and a wider view of connectivity, which may be more consistent with business strategy than a seat of learning.

 

This need is set against the desire of schools to reduce their carbon footprint.   With the exponential increase in the speed and capabilities of advances in technology and the need to run multiple software packages together, power consumption can go literally through the roof along with electricity costs.  Technological advances and the drive to sustainability may be profoundly at odds. 

 

The answer is to adopt some of the practices of the private sector.  Remote IT support will help increase the technical support available to IT teams without the cost burden of a vast department, provide full access to technology when needed, whilst helping to save energy when not and plan and prepare against disaster.  The best of two worlds, the IT knowledge and support required coupled with a focuses on energy reduction: remote support offer’s all the control needed.

 

At FWCS we offer the services schools want: from content filtering to security and monitoring, to backup as well as general support.  For more information please visit our website www.fwcs.co.uk, or contact Jo Honey on 01923 654 900 or by email, jo.h@fwcs.co.uk

 

The following case study illustrates how FWCS works with schools to help them achieve their goals.

 

A Case Study at Brigidine School

With 4 servers and in excess of 200 computers Brigidine School required an application that would assist the IT department in deploying applications and running maintenance tasks across all computers in the network. To save money the school wanted a way to control power consumptions.

 

Their in-house IT department was finding it difficult to keep all workstations up to date with all the various software applications, service packs and windows updates that were required to be installed on each computer.  Electric power consumption was also a concern as computers were often being left on overnight.  As the school was only open 9-5 Monday to Friday to have computers running for no reason was a big issue.

 

FWCS recommended the use of RES Wisdom, not only would RES Wisdom give the IT staff easy access to deploying software packages and running maintenance tasks the RES Wisdom also included a number of pre-installed modules to further assist the IT department with day to day administrative  tasks.

 

Brigidine School realized the benefits of implementing RES Wisdom very early on as rollouts of new software could be performed in hours instead of days/weeks.  The task management module was an ideal solution for solving the issue of workstation power usage: a simple but effective task was implemented to keep all workstations powered off between the hours of 6pm and 7am. 

 
 
 
 

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