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News Release Major London College Cuts Windows
2000 Roll-Out Time ON Command CCM Used to Implement Windows 2000 Roll-Out Across Seven Sites in Just 8 Weeks, While Providing Ongoing Centralized Management and Saving Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Waltham, MA, September 26, 2001 – ON Technology (NasdaqNM: ONTC), a leading provider of remote software and content management solutions, today announced that London’s Westminster Kingsway College implemented ON Command® CCM™ to manage its migration to Windows 2000 across two thousand desktops located over seven distributed sites in central London. As featured in the September 20, 2001 issue of Computing, ON Command CCM halved the expected deployment time. Unlike traditional desktop management tools such as Microsoft SMS, ON Command CCM manages the entire lifecycle of PCs, including installing operating systems like Windows 2000 and performing automated disaster recovery from blank or re-formatted hard drives when required. The college is now using ON Command CCM as part of its ongoing IT support infrastructure to manage operating systems, applications, and network configurations centrally, without sending technicians to remote sites. “The motivation for us was to save time and money,” said Ian MacDonald, Head of IT Services at Westminster Kingsway College. “We are down to seven people to run our seven-site network, and we couldn’t do it without the technology to replace the people. We don’t have to be dashing around the sites all the time, we can do it all from a central location now. We have been able to write off about £200,000 [approximately US $300,000] of staff costs.” Westminster Kingsway used ON Command CCM to ensure its Windows 2000 implementation would be completed during the standard eight-week summer holiday. The college decided to standardize on Windows 2000 after a merger last year created central London’s largest further education college, with over 25,000 students on a mixed environment of Windows NT and Windows 95 desktops. As part of the migration to Windows 2000, ON Command CCM was also used to roll-out core desktop applications such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Excel, as well as virus protection software. The college is using server hardware from Dell Computer to run its centralized ON Command CCM management software. MacDonald continued, “With ON Command CCM we now have a tool that supports more flexible management of desktops. Applications can be added and removed without the need to completely re-image the machine, and ON Technology’s native installation technology provides a higher rate of success than with traditional imaging tools we have used in the past, such as Symantec Ghost.” Harald Faulhaber, ON Technology’s newly appointed Vice President of European Operations, said, “Today’s college environments are fast-moving and require robust, reliable IT support. ON Command CCM allows Westminster Kingsway College to manage its desktops from a single remote, central site while providing the software consistency required for efficient IT support operations. Also, this customer’s success clearly shows that deploying new software does not have to be a long and costly process.” About
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