Simplifying IT in schools with the Sunlight Edge technology
The Senior IT Technician joined the school on completion of his own apprenticeship. Over time, his role has evolved from installing new computers, migrating servers and generally fixing things to managing the entire network and infrastructure. He is a key resource in delivering IT services for the school and has a lot of unique knowledge. This means that he is very busy, with little time or resource to train others.
The Sunlight NexCenter provides a single pane of glass to orchestrate and manage all of the physical server infrastructure as well as an AppLibrary for one-click deployment and automated updating of applications. This is one of the biggest benefits that Sunlight offers - simply set the infrastructure up and forget about it (with a few small tweaks now and again). If he wants to deploy a new service, then he creates a playbook in the AppLibrary to create the logic once and deploy any number of times. In the past, he would have to create a monolithic Operating System, Application and configuration bundle as a multi-Gigabyte image that has to be maintained, security patched and updated. Now he can just define how his application deploys, and Sunlight takes care of all the dependencies including the updates to the application itself as part of the automation script. He has more time on his hands now to help his system users, and he has less things to worry about when it comes to deploying and managing his IT infrastructure.
