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NOMAD HELPED
RIVERSIDE HEALTH
SYSTEM ACHIEVE
15-MINUTE
UPGRADES
Migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 was a
daunting challenge for Riversides IT Department.
Thanks to Nomad, the US healthcare firm was able to
dramatically accelerate its Windows upgrade program
slashing the time taken to migrate a PC from three
hours to just 15 minutes.
Challenge
April 2014 was a significant date for US
healthcare provider Riverside Health
System: Microsoft had stopped providing
support for Windows XP. Riverside was
among the many companies who found
themselves with an urgent need to switch
from XP to Windows 7 the only way to
ensure protection against potential
exploits and new vulnerabilities. With
7,800 PCs and a complex, highly
dispersed server estate, Riverside faced a
significant challenge in terms of rolling
out the upgrade quickly and effectively.
To ensure success, it needed an efficient,
effective, and automated approach.
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Solution
1Es Nomad provided Riverside with a fast,
bandwidth-efficient, and highly
automated solution to roll-out Windows 7.
The low-touch approach had minimum
impact on end users and ensured that the
small, centralized IT team could rapidly
accelerate the migration.
Benefits
Accelerated migration - Nomad reduced
the average time needed to migrate a
PC to Windows 7 from three hours to
just 15 minutes. Rather than migrating
each machine individually, IT staff can
set up 5-6 migrations at a time.
Painless process Nomad made it
possible for Riverside to carry out the
migration without any impact on end
users work eliminating any costs that
might have been associated with lost
work time.
Increased time for key projects
Riverside has saved more than 24,000
man hours over the course of the
migration project time that can now
be used on other important IT projects.
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Benefits uncovered
Using Nomad, Riverside was not only able to transform its approach to XP migration, but
now has a tool in place that will deliver on-going efficiencies in the long term. Riverside
has estimated that it will save around 23,400 man-hours during its next Windows rollout
alone thanks to Nomad. Reducing the cost and time of a previously lengthy and laborintensive migration process means that Riversides IT staff can now focus on delivering
more value to the business and end-users in other areas
Streamlined image delivery Nomad allowed the Riverside IT team to quickly
and automatically map the topology of the companys WAN and subnets,
treating a complex distributed network as simple and local. Rather than
deliver a single image to each computer from a central point over the WAN, (a
time-consuming and inefficient process), Riversides IT team could deliver
just one copy to every branch, to be disseminated automatically via peer-topeer connections between the individual computers, using bandwidth
throttling to remove the competition between IT and business traffic.
Distribution-point servers reduced by 95% As well as being the most time,
cost and bandwidth-efficient way to distribute OS upgrades, this approach
reduced the number of distribution-point servers required to disseminate XP
by 95% and reduced network complexity
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1Es suite of disruptive IT operations management tools save billions, solve problems and
simplify the management of large, complex IT environments in record time. Designed
with a singular focus to help drive down costs, 1Es solutions include tools for IT asset
management, Windows systems management and BYOPC.
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