Taking education to the next level
HP partners T John Group of Institutions in providing world class
education by providing an efficient, secure and highly reliable
IT infrastructure.
HP customer case
study:
Empowered with HP
Objectives:
Consolidated Client
• Reduce outdated desktop replacement
Infrastructure T John
cost.
Group of Institutions • Provide cost-effective and easily
keeps up with latest manageable IT solutions to prompt TJGI as
technology norms first mover in India in Education Vertical.
more cost-effectively • Reduce operational and maintenance
without any down costs.
Creating an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity
time. Turning students into committed professionals
Approach:
In this era of profits winning over ethics and
Industry: • Deploy HP Blade PC`s bc 2500 for easier
Education manageability and increased security. education becoming a burden, T. John Group of
• Replace desktop PC`s with vc 4725 and t institutions (TJGI) has become synonymous with
5630 thin clients for increased energy
quality and affordable education. Working
efficiency and data management.
tirelessly since 1993, TJGI is making rapid
strides in molding students into committed
IT Improvements:
professionals and responsible citizens. Spread
• Centralizing data, applications,
computing power and maintenance in the over an area of 25 acres, TJGI is offering
data centre. courses in almost all the disciplines of
• Technicians freed up from desktop Engineering, Nursing, Management,
maintenance/repair.
• Less downtime. Biotechnology and Pharmacy. Understanding
the needs of the global technical environment,
this NAAC accredited institution has a campus
Business Benefits:
Accelerated business growth which is completely wireless. A notebook is
• Introduction of latest technology enhances mandatory for all management students. With a
reputation amongst students nationally
vision of arming the Gen Next with the power of
and internationality.
• Longer lifecycle - roughly twice that of True Education, T John Group of Institutions
traditional desktops ensures better return Chairman Thomas P John opines, ''with
on investments.
innovation taking the front seat in the IT industry,
it is essential that the newcomers to the IT field
Lower costs:
are well prepared. Therefore we impart
• Less downtime cost per user.
education through word-class facilities
• Reduced power requirement.
• Reduction in maintenance and update available to enhance teaching and provide
costs. practical skills at the highest level. An
• Huge savings in capital cost
atmosphere of intellectual curiosity, academic
freedom, diversity and personal empowerment
is created to produce highly competent

professionals who will be able to sustain and Nucleus Computers along with HP's technical
prosper in this era of converging technologies team moved in with a unique and revolutionary
and skills.” sol ut ion called Con sol id a te d Cl ient
As its constant endeavor to take education and
Infrastructure (CCI). CCI is a desktop-
students' experience to next level technology,
replacement solution that allows end users to
the institution is also planning to make its library
access their personalized environments,
completely digital.
applications and data from almost anywhere,
with the same high-level desktop experience.
CCI's fundamental building block is the blade
PC. Blade PCs takes the physical PC off the desk
and replaces it with a thin client. The thin client
connects to a dedicated blade that sits in a
chassis in the data center. Once connected, a
blade PC can be used just like any other PC. HP
provided TJGI with bc2500 Blade PCs. Using
Sustaining growth and meeting challenges
an AMD Athlon 64 CPU, the HP Blade PC bc
With the growing reputation of the institutions,
2500 enabled users at TJGI to store their
the number of students is growing each year
intellectual property and data in the data center
and has now touched 3000 mark. “For an
where they are more easily secured. It also
institution that aims to provide affordable
reduced security vulnerabilities and lessened
education to all, investment in PCs as per the
downtime resulting from virus attacks. HP also
AICTE approval is huge. Moreover, we were
offered vc 4725 and t5630 thin clients which
facing a stiff challenge of mounting costs with
replacement and upgradation of the outdated
hardware every 4 years. Underutilization of
more than 50% desktops and downtimes
resulting from virus attacks only added to the
woes” recalls Srinivas H.P., Head of the
Computer Department.
are computing devices that function as an
access device on a network. Since thin clients
have no hard drive, it allowed TJGI to store its
data and applications more securely on the
server. With no hard drive, fan or other moving
parts, thin clients reduced the total cost of
While the group was looking for a long term ownership for TJGI with a much longer lifespan
economical solution to all these problems, HP's than standard computers. These thin clients also
solution partner Nucleus Computers played a increased energy efficiency for TJGI as they use
crucial role in getting the top Management of T almost 67% less energy as compared to
John the Virtualisation flavour. Involved with T traditional desktops. This was realized not only
John as an IT vendor for the last 5 years, in energy costs but reduced

air-conditioning costs also as thin clients Powering education with solutions from HP
generate lesser heat. TJGI also benefited from Today students and teachers at TJGI prefer this
lower maintenance costs as software new Blade PC solution from HP both for its
application updates, virus scanning and improved performance and contemporary
patches are now executed on the server. appearance. They don't feel like they're stuck
Deployment costs are also reduced as thin with old technology anymore, and the
clients can be remotely configured and do not application performance is faster than it had
need to be set up individually. “Implementing been previously. The units consume less space
the solution called CCI has allowed us to enjoy in the classroom and reduce the heat produced
s i m p l i fi e d management of desktop by a traditional desktop computer. This
infrastructure and increased agility while upgradation in technology has made TJGI as
offering our students and employees the same one of the first movers in India in Education
user experience as traditional desktop. With Vertical and has enhanced its reputation not
only in India but in countries like Sri Lanka,
lower operational, ownership and maintenance
Malaysia, Philippines and Bangladesh. With its
costs, we are able to fulfill our dream of
cutting edge technology and next generation IT
providing quality education at a cost which
solutions, HP will keep partnering TJGI in its
everyone can afford”, explains Thomas P John,
mission of providing quality education so that
Chairman, T John Group of Institutions.
every student who steps out of its portals is a
complete person, professionally, intellectually,
and morally.
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Fact Sheet
• Company:
Century Communication Limited
• Director:
Abhishek Tewari
• Number of Employees:
200
• Clients:
Spread across North America, Europe and Asia
Pacific.
• Key Projects:
Bollywood blockbusters :
- Don
- Namastey London
- Honeymoon Travels
- Shaka Laka Boom Boom
• HP Product Details:
- HP xw4600 workstations
- HP xw6600 workstations
- HP xw8600 workstations
- HP xw9400 workstations
- HP Proliant BL460c G5 blade servers
- HP Dreamcolor monitors
• HP CCL Account Team:
- Name - Account Manager
- Name - Business Manager - Workstations
- Name - Business Manager
To learn more, visit www.hp.com
© 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P The information contained herein is subject to change
.
without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements
accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
Other names and brands may be the property of their respective owners.