The Sussex Health Informatics Service (Sussex HIS) is
supporting 25,000 NHS users with a
Novell resource management suite.
Sussex HIS, which provides IT services to all 11 NHS trusts in
the Sussex region, is implementing
Novell's Zenworks resource management suite to deliver asset
management, remote desktop control and application deployment.
The roll-out, which will support 25,000 users, will enable
Sussex NHS organisations to have a unified view of their IT
resources, making their network more secure and easier to
manage.
Currently, Novell Zenworks is being deployed throughout East
Sussex to 6,000 users as a pilot project, with a view to expand the
system to cover all 25,000 users in Sussex.
The project has been enabled by the Novell Enterprise Wide
Agreement with NHS Connecting For Health, signed in October 2005,
which means that any NHS trust can be granted the licenses and
training it needs to use the full Zenworks Suite at no extra
cost.
“At Sussex HIS we manage and support a very mixed IT
infrastructure spanning 11 trusts throughout the region in
disparate locations. We needed a robust resource management
solution that was capable of working over low bandwidth
connections,” said Steve Orman, head of IT at Sussex HIS.
“Novell Zenworks Suite gave us a reliable remote desktop
solution as well as a clear upgrade path to use other modules of
ZENworks further down the line,” said Orman.
Sussex HIS will be able to run asset reports centrally and
enable remote desktop control, so the NHS trusts it supports can
benefit from lower helpdesk costs, automatically deploy operating
systems, configurations and software on thousands of desktops and
laptops - all from a single location.
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