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Newcastle City Council Upgrades to Virtual Remote Access System With AEP Netilla(R) VE
Benefits From Improved Compliance and Flexibility as New Systems Implemented Virtually Unnoticed by Users
| Source: AEP Networks
SOMERSET, NJ and HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, UK--(Marketwire - August 3, 2009) - Newcastle City Council has
successfully completed an upgrade project from a physical remote access
system to a virtual environment. The project was scoped, specified, tested
and implemented by AEP Networks'
U.K. channel partner, Enforce
Technology Limited, in just four weeks. It was implemented in response
to the Government Connect Programme under which all local authorities must
move their mail servers into their own networks. Key benefits of the new
virtual environment include greater system flexibility and resilience, PCI
compliance, lower cost and better manageability.
Andrew Price, ICT Technical Consultant for Newcastle City Council,
commented, "We had been involved with Enforce and AEP Networks for several
years when the need to change came about. We were keen to meet the
compliance requirements set down by the Government and to gain some
additional benefits through the project. With change comes the opportunity
to review current systems and it was at this time that the virtual product
(Netilla VE) was highlighted to us. It seemed to offer us a degree of
flexibility and resilience that a physical product was unable to deliver.
In fact, we are now able to cater for almost unlimited numbers of users
because the virtual environment has inherent flexibility."
Although compliance was the main driver for the project, Newcastle CC has
benefitted from several knock-on advantages. For example, with Netilla VE
in place, the technology team is able to create test environments that are
isolated from the live systems. This allows them to test scenarios before
putting them into the live environment which is a distinct advantage when
introducing new processes. Also, the virtual Netilla product delivers a
much greater level of user flexibility and resilience than the physical
set-up. In fact, it almost enables unlimited concurrent users.
Paul Spencer, senior vice president of Secure Application Access for AEP
Networks, said, "Business continuity is a significant consideration for all
local governments to manage disaster situations ranging from floods to
viral epidemics. Having an effective, secure, flexible and resilient
remote access system in place is a terrific way to cater for all
eventualities. With the support of our partners we were able to deliver
systems that can cater for customers' day to day needs most efficiently and
protect them against any unforeseen situations."
John Calder of Enforce commented, "Implementing a virtual SSL VPN is
relatively straightforward and can be done with little or no disruption to
existing remote users. Increasing the level of access is also simple as
everything is done in software. We do this by creating sub servers in the
virtual environment to soak up all users as required. The capacity is
there just in case it's needed, so customers can cater for a surge in users
at any given point in time."
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