Solutions

Surftec is a one stop provider for all of your ICT solutions and we work with a number of specialist companies to provide a complete service to our customers. We can supply anything from a single printer up to a complete virtual server solution.

What solutions does Surftec Ltd offer?

Todays ICT requirements are wide ranging, complex and required to meet extremely tight budget requirements. Solutions therefore have to be designed in such a way so that existing infrastructure is incorporated and reused and new investment is planned for the long term to provide a stable foundation on which ICT system can build upon in years to come.

Modern solutions, such as cloud computing, virtualisation of both servers and clients, provisioning and server based computing or thin-clients allow schools to decrease overhead costs, increase reliability and this in return allows ICT staff to focus developing ICT resources to aid learning rather than focussing solely on system management and the resolution of faults.

Whilst the term cloud computing is a relatively new one, we have been providing schools with their own cloud systems allowing staff and pupils to work from home and on mobile devices for over ten years and as such we are one of the most experienced specialists suppliers to education of server based solutions.

Server Based Computing

Initially described as thin-clients, the technology behind server based computing has progressively grown. In the simple sence a server based, thin-client network provided basic clients with no moving parts, therefore less heat and no noise with a remotely hosted applications or a full desktop environment. This technology has a great number of advantages such as centralised management of software, settings and updates where only the servers need updating and not the clients reducing the complexity of system management by 40:1 (that is the typical number of clients per server). Thin-clients due to their basic nature do very little processing locally and this means that the clients can last several server refreshes and stay in service for longer than six years (typically 9 years or three refreshes) providing huge savings and allowing schools to expand their ICT rather than replacing it entirely in each complete cycle.

Server based computing can now be mixed with complimentary technologies and when several are used the term virtual computing comes into play allowing users to move between different types of system allowing system designers to focus resources to match the requirements of the users exactly without restricting users to just one system. The technology places laptops in the hands of staff and pupils who require mobility, high performance systems for users who utilise design, graphics, CAD/CAM or video software and low cost thin-clients for the majority of users providing a better working environment by using less desk space and  whilst protecting the environment through lower power consumption and less heat generated.