HK primary school deploys blade PCs

20.02.2009
Kowloon Junior School has deployed Hewlett-Packard (HP's) client virtualisation solution. This replaces its conventional distributed client infrastructure that comprised notebook and desktop personal computers (PCs). Kowloon Junior School is the first among the 16 schools under the English Schools Foundation in Hong Kong to adopt the solution.

"We had several blade PCs set up for trial at our school in May 2007 for a week. We tested them with all our programmes, making sure everything would work. Everyone was very pleased with the performance. So we made the purchase in September and everything was installed and ready around mid-October," said Joe Leithhead, IT coordinator at Kowloon Junior School.

"Through the centralised management console, we can remotely monitor and control all blade PCs and thin clients, without physically going to the problems," said Frederick Wong, supervisory ICT technician of Kowloon Junior School.

"Now we can easily finish all the start-up and health check procedures every day in the morning before the school starts. We've noticed at a 20 per cent increase in operational support efficiency following the HP Remote Client Solutions deployment," Wong said.

Simplified virtualisation solution

HP last week announced a simplified client virtualisation solution that helps businesses reduce costs with blade personal computers.