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PRESS RELEASE
For additional
information, contact:
Kelly Forgues, Emergent OnLine.
1-703-709-9210 or pr@go-eol.com
For company information: 1-877-EOL-THIN
Anderson Union High
School District Streamlines Application Deployment,
Provisioning and Access
School District Standardizes on Provision Networks Access
Solutions
September 23, 2005 –
Anderson, California. Provision Networks, the global
provider of server-based access infrastructure solutions for
the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Terminal Server platform,
today announced that the Anderson Union High School District (AUHSD)
in Northern California has adopted the Provision Management
Framework™ for its enterprise application deployment,
provisioning and access.
The Provision Management Framework (PMF), Enterprise Edition
is a full-featured access infrastructure solution that
leverages the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform, and
delivers anywhere, anytime access to applications and network
resources. Enterprise features such as Seamless Windows,
Application Publishing, Load Balancing, Access Control, a Web
Portal and an SSL Gateway embrace the RDP protocol and enhance
the deployment, manageability, performance, and security of
Terminal Services environments of all sizes.
With 2,400 students and 200 faculty members across six campus
sites and a district office, desktop management, application
deployment, and access accounted for a significant portion of
the support efforts by the IT group.
Working with Emergent OnLine (www.EmergentOnLine.com), one of
the most experienced server-based computing consultancies in
the world, AUHSD implemented a centralized application access,
management, and deployment infrastructure based on the
Provision Management Framework. AUHSD had initially attempted
to deploy a Tarantella solution which failed to work
satisfactorily and considered a Citrix solution which was
dismissed as too costly. Emergent OnLine, an unbiased
integrator, presented the alternatives and worked closely with
AUHSD to get their new infrastructure in production before the
new school season started.
“We couldn’t be happier with this new infrastructure,” said
Aaron Zimmerman, Director of IT with AUHSD. “Provision
Networks has allowed us to centralize our application access
and management infrastructure, and has drastically reduced
on-going desktop support costs.”
The Provision Networks infrastructure deployed at AUHSD
consists of eleven Windows 2003 Terminal Servers running the
Enterprise Edition of the PMF to deliver a variety of
educational, tutoring, and productivity applications,
including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.
Centralized applications are accessible from any of the school
district’s six campus sites and one district office. All
student labs and faculty offices are equipped with a mixture
of HP thin clients and desktop computers. The school was also
able to take advantage of its prior investment in several Sun
Ray 170 ultra thin clients, using rdesktop and connecting
through Provision Networks’ Proxy-IT gateway.
“The education segment is in dire need of cost-effective, yet
feature-rich access management and deployment solutions,” said
Mike Moore, Vice President of Sales with Provision Networks.
“We are happy that our industry leading solutions are being
adopted worldwide at leading organizations such as AUHSD.”
Commenting further on his implementation at AUHSD, Mr.
Zimmerman said: “The simplicity of the interface is a
wonderful advantage. However the richness of the features is
what sold me. The granularity of application publishing, being
able to map printers based on device name, and the intelligent
load balancing make this server-based computing system so
superior. Next we plan on implementing Web-IT and Secure-IT to
allow our students and faculty secure remote access into the
system from anywhere, anytime, over any connection, as well as
MetaProfiles-IT to manage complex profile configurations.”
About Provision Networks
Provision Networks is a global provider of server-based access
infrastructure provisioning, management, optimization and
security. Provision Networks solutions embrace and extend the
Citrix MetaFrame and Microsoft Terminal Services platforms,
delivering resilient and scalable on-demand access for
enterprises worldwide.
The Enterprise Edition of the Provision Management Framework®
is designed to extend the native (RDP) functionality of
Windows Terminal Services with important features such as
Seamless Windows, Session-Sharing, Intelligent Load Balancing,
Application Publishing, a Web-based interface, and an
integrated SSL Gateway (RDP over SSL).
Included in the Enterprise Edition, the Provision Management
Framework, Standard Edition is a comprehensive access
management solution designed to improve and enhance the
provisioning, performance, manageability, and security of your
Citrix access infrastructure.
In a single package, you
get:
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Provide printing support
for any client or network printer with a single universal
print driver; Print-IT®
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Allow users to compute
in their own time zones, regardless of the server's time
zone; TimeZones-IT®
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Automate several
time-consuming session configuration and lockdown tasks;
Manage-IT®
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Enforce granular
firewall access rules and exercise schedule-aware
application execution control, all on a session-by-session
basis, and without disrupting corporate security policies;
Block-IT®
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Enhance application
compatibility by enabling single-user applications to
execute reliably in multi-user mode in a Terminal Server
environment; Redirect-IT®
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Enhance the mobility of
an access infrastructure by allowing users to fully
synchronize their USB-based BlackBerry and Palm devices over
RDP and ICA connections; USB-IT®
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Achieve unprecedented
logon speeds and stability levels of user profiles by
implementing new profile management techniques;
MetaProfiles-IT®
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Improve application
response times and expand overall server capacity by
streamlining and optimizing the use of CPU and virtual
memory resources; Max-IT®
With a world-class client
list, comprised of some of the world’s largest commercial
enterprises, and government organizations, Provision Networks
is the most trusted name in access infrastructure management,
security, and optimization.
To learn more about Provision Networks and our enterprise
access solutions, please visit us at
www.ProvisionNetworks.com.
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