Cost Saving IdeasWith the help of…
Our topics…
•Virtualisation
•Power Management
•The Paperless
School
Virtualisation
Virtualisation - The Benefits
• Electricity- 24 physical servers to 9 physical servers
• Cooling- Less servers to cool has cut down on our need to increase
our cooling facilities
• Maintenance- Less physical servers to maintain- Virtually no downtime
• Responsive- Easily install new server- Easily increase resources available to a server
£12,000
Our topics…
•Virtualisation
•Power Management
•The Paperless
School
Microsoft Options
Power Down
• 3rd Party Software
• Schedule windows for
shut down & start up
• Setup individual
windows for regular
or one-off settings
£14,000
Our topics…
•Virtualisation
•Power Management
•The Paperless
School
Why ?
• 1.5 million sheets of paper a
year
• Printing costs for letters,
reports
• Postage costs for letters,
reports
• Admin time
• Increase availability of data
• Data analysis
- Easier than paper
- Export to Excel
Academic Review Day
• Drop down day for students
• All students, along with parents, attend interview with teacher
• Fill in an online form• Form is emailed to
student and parent• Data is all saved to
SharePoint 2010
How Did We Do It
• Create lists on our SharePoint farm
• Office InfoPath 2010 to create the form
• SharePoint Designer 2010 to create the workflows
Getting At The Data
• Links to pages in the navigation of the Learning Gateway
• Page uses a filter to show only the relevant data
A Constant Reminder
• Student are emailed a live copy of the form for their records
• Their targets are on the main page of the Learning gateway
What does this all mean
Virtualisation £12,000 a year
saving
Power Management £14,000 a year
saving
Paperless School £8,000 a year
saving
Total Savings £34,000 a year
What Next
• Find out what software you have in School
• Put power management in place using group
policy
• Identify areas that will benefit from moving them
online
• Communicate
Questions
• Come see me in the demo pod area
• Email me: [email protected]
• Check my blog: www.edutechnow.com
• Twitter: @arichards_Saruk
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