Mole Valley District Council cuts carbon emissions and saves money with IGEL thin clients

Savings of £6,000 per year and carbon emissions reduced by 25,000 kilos a year

Reading, UK. September 23, 2010: Mole Valley District Council is making desktop savings of £6,000 a year and reducing carbon emissions by 25,000 kilos a year after rolling out IGEL thin clients.

The Council decided to upgrade its desktop technology to help save money on hardware and to reduce its carbon footprint, whilst installing a more flexible and secure system. The council was attracted by the fact that IGEL thin clients have a lifespan twice that of traditional PCs and can save up to 50 per cent on running costs by using far less electricity. The thin client devices are also easy to install and move, are free from virus attack and designed to protect against data loss or theft as all information is kept on the central servers.

“We chose IGEL’s thin client solution after we tested most of the market leaders,” said Mole Valley Deputy Council Leader Kathryn Westwood. “We found it was very competitively priced and our IT department was very impressed with the ease of set-up. The thin client solution is already saving us £6,000 a year and helping to reduce our carbon emissions by 25,000 kilos a year – helping us to reach our target of reducing the council’s carbon emissions by 35% by 2015.”

Simon Richards, IGEL’s UK General Manager, added: “The reason the public sector should look at thin client devices is because they save money through reduced administration costs, they are physically more secure, four times more reliable and they enable green IT, with some customers paying for their devices purely on energy savings alone.”

More details on the Mole Valley District Council deployment can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxHDUVjYYu4