They asked Viglen — the Hertfordshire based ICT specialist — to design, project-manage and implement an £800,000 full curriculum and administration network and the results have been spectacular.

The University of Plymouth runs a fleet of over 5,000 PCs. An IT refresh of this size is never easy and the University was determined to not only refresh all of their PCs at the same time but also to improve on what had gone before.

Serving 111,300 residents in North Wales, Conwy County Borough Council’s disparate storage environment needed consolidating to support new internal systems and a developing disaster recovery plan. Viglen deployed a storage solution providing sufficient capacity to meet future needs as well as a platform for disaster recovery, consolidating remote and local servers and reducing deployment costs...

Walsall College is a further education comprehensive college in the West Midlands, currently educating approximately 7000 students ranging from age 14 to 75. It has won a number of specialist awards and accreditations in a variety of subjects and as a centre of learning for the whole community, its chief aims are: “all young people to reach the age 19 ready for skilled employment or higher education, to tackle the Adult Skills Gap and to raise and widen participation in Higher Education.”

Coleg Gwent, in Southeast Wales, is the largest Further Education College in Wales, consisting of six campus sites as well as two satellite IT centres. Its mission is to become the most successful college in the UK. One of Britain’s newer colleges, Coleg Gwent, formerly Gwent Tertiary College, was founded in 1992 and has seen a steady rise in both students and staff since then. Currently the institution has more than 35,000 students and approximately 1,500 staff.

LGC is Europe’s leading independent analytical laboratory, providing chemical, biochemical and forensic analysis. It services a wide range of customers from BSE testing for Defra, through to DNA analysis for numerous police forces.
For an organisation on the leading edge of their profession, IT plays a vital role in ensuring that the work carried out in the laboratories is turned around in the time frame required by the customer.
The business effectively works 24 hours a day, 6 days a week; such hours of operation require a high availability of IT systems and applications.