INX Announces Successful Completion of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solution

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INX Inc., (NASDAQ:INXI - News) announced today that it has successfully completed a virtual desktop infrastructure project for Bloomfield ISD.
  
The city of Bloomfield is located in northwestern New Mexico only 70 miles from the famous four corners intersection of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. It’s also home to the Bloomfield ISD, a school district that supports approximately 1,500 square miles of community and over 3,200 students. There are seven schools inside the district that range from elementary to high school education. Many school districts, like Bloomfield, face the challenge of providing a secure, stable and technologically advanced computing environment to their students. As school districts consider solutions that allow them centralized management, easier deployment, easier administration and green IT initiatives, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is growing in popularity as the right solution.

Bloomfield ISD recognized the benefits of implementing virtual desktop technology and contracted with INX to design and implement a solution to meet their growing needs. INX provided a complete virtual desktop environment that has entirely replaced the traditional desktop hardware in three of the school labs. The three labs equate to 90 virtualized desktop units. INX implemented a VDI solution that provided Bloomfield ISD with a highly available, efficient and scalable environment for its students and achieved its business objectives of aligning with green IT initiatives, implementing a centrally managed environment, and increasing ease of deployment and administration.

By combining Dell infrastructure, Pano Logic terminal devices, VMware virtual desktop management software, and INX services, a complete virtual desktop environment was established. The primary computing environment was configured with multiple VMware ESX servers hosting the virtual machines. The system is connected via iSCSI to Dell Equalogic shared storage, allowing this deployment to be the foundation for all future deployments of Bloomfield Schools’ VDI infrastructure.

Ted Bonnell, Regional Branch Manager of INX’s Southwest Region said, “We are pleased that this implementation has been so successful for Bloomfield ISD. They are sure to see the benefits of this new technology and we look forward to implementing the next phase for them, once they are ready.”

Russell Florez, Bloomfield ISD Director of Information Technology commented, “I’m very pleased with the new solution. VDI has the potential to change the way we deliver computing to our students. We are able to improve the user experience while simultaneously achieving many of our green initiatives and simplifying our management duties. This means my employees have more time to dedicate to other important tasks.”

Future plans for VDI growth at Bloomfield include an additional 11 labs totaling approximately 330 virtual desktop units. The initial VDI deployment was started in July, 2010 and completed in September.

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