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West Hatch High School saves £12,000 a year with virtualisation

If you’re a regular blog reader, you’ll know that I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about cost saving – and the ways that your ICT could contribute to saving your school money. With the pressure on school budgets, and the big investment made in ICT over the...

Published Thu, Sep 2 2010 12:35 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, case study, Virtualisation, Money Saving Tips

Building Clouds - how to make a data centre more energy efficient

We have a team, called Microsoft Global Foundation Services , who have the job of building clouds. Or at least, building ‘the Cloud’ – they design, build, run and support our global data centres which are at the hub of all of our cloud...

Published Wed, Aug 4 2010 11:32 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Cloud, Live@EDU, case study, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions

Money Saving Tips Update - Bristnall Hall Technology College

At the end of 2009, I worked with a group of schools, and with Gerald Haigh (an ex-head teacher and educational writer) to create the Money Saving ICT Tips , which was used for a presentation at the BETT 2010 show, and also for a series of later case...

Published Tue, Aug 3 2010 12:45 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: case study, licensing, Money Saving Tips, School Agreement

The TES goes all ICT today - and drives the cost saving agenda

It’s not often that the TES reports on ICT – apart from a couple of pages tucked away towards the back of the magazine. But today they’ve splashed articles about ICT on the front page of the main newspaper and on the front page of the magazine. Unfortunately...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 10:21 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Money Saving Tips, TES, carbon emissions, ICT strategy, Harnessing Technology

Saving money by effective power management

One of the hidden costs of ICT in schools is the power usage of the equipment you’ve got around your school. I call it hidden because it is often not visible to the IT team, and the full energy costs of all of your servers and computers are simply part...

Published Fri, Jul 9 2010 02:59 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: System Center, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions, IT Funding

Harnessing Technology Grant – kicking a grant while it’s down

A few weeks ago, on 18th June, the Government cut the Harnessing Technology Grant, in order to find capital funds to start Free Schools. I wrote a blog post at the time to summarise the information . Well, they’ve done it again – this time, when...

Published Tue, Jul 6 2010 10:39 PM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: learning platforms, Money Saving Tips, ICT strategy, Harnessing Technology

Moving Tameside to web-based email - saving money and making users happier

A little earlier this month, I had the chance to have a long chat with Darren Madden, from Tameside local authority (or, as it should be properly known, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council). Darren’s the leader of the Schools Technical Team ( you can...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 12:30 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Cloud, Live@EDU, email, Money Saving Tips

Education IT savings–West Hatch School, virtualisation and £36,000

After Wednesday’s IT cost saving story, of Neville Lovett Community School in Hampshire saving £23,000 , it seemed timely to share one more example of education IT savings – from West Hatch High School in Essex. Alan Richards, the Information...

Published Thu, May 27 2010 10:34 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: hyper-V, Windows Server 2008, case study, Virtualisation, Money Saving Tips, West Hatch High School

Education IT cost savings - Neville Lovett school, virtualisation, and a £23,000 saving

In the Top Money Saving Tips post series, I wrote about various education IT cost savings – things that could be done to reduce your school IT budget, or to use IT to save money in other areas of the school budget. In all I described 14 tips, and calculated...

Published Wed, May 26 2010 05:18 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, case study, Virtualisation, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions, Neville Lovett School

Saving money by doing IT differently?

I’ve just finished reading a story in Computing about the Co-op saving money on IT , when they cut their Microsoft licensing bills by at least £1.5 million, by changing the way that they implemented technology. Having written so much about cost-saving...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 02:32 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Saving Money, case study, SQL Server 2008, Money Saving Tips

School Server Virtualisation video case study

There’s a new video case study now available, of a US school district that upgraded their ICT infrastructure by virtualising their servers – saving themselves money in the process. Tri-Center Community Schools in Iowa sought to improve students’ education...

Published Fri, Mar 26 2010 12:31 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Virtualisation, Money Saving Tips

Saving power on the go

In the Top ICT Money Saving Tips , the second one was all around using the power saving functions of Windows , to knock £10,000 a year off your electricity bill. With perfect timing, the Windows team, over at windows.microsoft.com , have released a new...

Published Wed, Mar 24 2010 04:34 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Windows 7, video, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions, power

It makes sense to review the way you buy software – it might save money

hI’ve blogged about software licensing before, and have hopefully managed to explain the various options and the cost saving possibilities – especially in number 12 of my Top ICT Money Saving Tips h and in “ Get the best deal on Microsoft software ”....

Published Mon, Mar 22 2010 02:31 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: licensing, Dean Close School, Money Saving Tips, School Agreement

Virtually saving money

Virtualisation again. Just to remind you if you’re still not up with it, virtualisation is shorthand for replacing your bank of network servers with just a few, more powerful ones, each housing a number of virtual servers. And why has it suddenly become...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 01:43 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: hyper-V, Saving Money, Windows Server 2008, case study, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions, West Hatch High School

Free anti-virus protection for staff and student owned computers

I was suprised to discover I hadn’t blogged this before. So if you’ve renewed an anti-virus subscription for your home computer since last October, when this was launched, then I’m sorry! We have launched a free anti-virus programme, Microsoft Security...

Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 01:17 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, Security, Saving Money, free stuff, free downloads, Money Saving Tips

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