Top UK Dental Surgery Network Reduces Burden on IT Support with Wyse Cloud Client Computing

LONDON, UK – 06/15/2010 - Wyse Technology, the inventor and global leader in cloud client  computing, today announced how its customer, Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH), one of the UK's leading dental groups, has reached a major milestone in replacement of PC-based practice systems with a new solution based on the latest virtualization technology from Wyse.

IDH serves over two million patients and a network of over 250 practices in the UK. With over 1500 professionals, IDH is committed to leading the way in patient care by encouraging practices to share the benefits of its network.

As part of its professional network, IDH provides 250 dental practices country-wide with IT support. As part of an initiative to review current systems and both reduce costs and tighten IT security, IDH decided to replace current standard PCs with flexible thin clients from Wyse.

A key requirement of IDH was that the system would be simple and easy to set up and manage in its many dental practices dispersed around the UK.   IDH selected Wyse S10 thin clients because these small, lightweight units that take up less space and use far less energy than comparable PCs, while providing access to the same applications and data.

Matthew Bullock, head of IT, IDH commented: "Following the successful pilot, we decided to roll out thin clients across all the practices with currently 1000 installed in 100 sites across the country.  With the deployment of Wyse thin clients, we have reduced maintenance costs and resource as well as the cost associated with PC support."

Unlike personal computers, which require a great deal of maintenance and upkeep, Wyse cloud client computing eliminates local data storage and administration of the desktop and puts it in a single central location.  The desktops have no local storage and are therefore not vulnerable to malware as long as the back-end servers are protected.

With Wyse’s thin clients in place, IDH is seeing a rapid decline in support calls from users of the thin clients. As Matthew explains: "The decline in the volume of support calls was astronomically different to the time when we had standard PCs installed across all sites. One difference that was felt across the practices was that starting up the devices literally takes twenty seconds from pressing the power button; something which was never the case with the PCs."

David Angwin, director of marketing, EMEA, Wyse Technology said: "IDH is a superb example of how a desktop virtualization project can be deployed rapidly and deliver compelling results in terms of time and resource saving."

About Wyse Technology

Wyse Technology is the inventor and global leader in cloud client computing, leveraging its industry-leading thin and zero client computing-based desktop virtualization software, hardware and services. Cloud Client Computing is the ultimate client computing solution for our time. It replaces the outdated computing model of the unsecure, unreliable, un-green and expensive PC. It delivers the most optimized security, reliability, total cost of ownership, and user experience with the lowest energy usage. It simply connects all the dots: Thin and zero client computing, unified communications, desktop virtualization and the web for users to reach the clouds – in a private, public, government or hybrid cloud. It is software. It is hardware. It is services. It is in business. It is at home. It is on the go. It is freedom – so users can focus on what is important. Wyse partners with industry-leading IT vendors, including, Cisco®, CSC®, Citrix®, IBM®, Microsoft®, and VMware®. Wyse also partners with globally-recognized distribution and service partners along with its award-winning partner programs to service any customer, anywhere and anytime, in the world. Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, U.S.A., with offices worldwide.

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