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Education > Further Education

The FE Marketplace covers quite a wide range of sizes and specialities, whereas an HE or School environment can be said to have a rough predictable size and complexity the same cannot be said for FE.

In our experience most FE institutions have a reasonable level of IT staffing and skills to cope with day to day activities and problems but would usually benefit from a skills injection on new and large scale projects. In addition the skills they need to buy in will have to understand that FE institutions aren’t a set shape and size and don’t necessarily exist on one campus (or even one town!)

This is where ST-FOUR comes in, we can advise you on the best way to achieve the goals that you are aiming for through the use of Novell technologies and we can you the hands-on help you need to implement those solutions.

HOT TOPICS for FE are:

• Systems Integration – using tools like IDM and iChain to provide secure single sign-on solutions across multiple disparate systems for both external and internal access
• Data Resilience and replication – using affordable SAN technologies with Clustering to protect data 24/7 and RSYNC to replicate data offsite for DR purposes. At larger institutions File System Factory can be used to automate and manage data storage creation, modification and deletion based on eDirectory events, imagine moving a user in eDirectory and all their data automatically moves with them to a new server!
• User Lifecycle Management – using tools like IDM to automate user creation, moves and expiration/deletion on multiple directories and SQL databases
• Desktop and application deployment, management and inventory using ZENworks for Desktops.