margesimpson

We use Netcontrol 2 too. it's not bad and prety cost effective.

My school uses the online backup service solution from Attix5 and it's superb. It's provided to us by our LA - we don't do any backups anymore at all as it's done for us. The recovery of computers is really simple as we found out a couple of weeks ago. Really qucik and impressed. I don;t even have to take tapes home with me anymore which pleases my husband and me due to the responsibility of all that data in my hands. I know that we wouldn't be without it. And it costs less to us than having to buy tapes. And when I am away on holiday (malaga this year!) I don;t have to worry about who is doing backups.

Hi - yes, the SIMS upgrade can be completely automated using Centrastage and I now believe that is what Capita are endorsing.

Hi There I am currently at an LA in the South and the provider for the remote backup service for schools solution has just launched a new product called centrastage. Although we are not running it at present, my colleagues in the south west are raving about it. I haven't experienced it yet for myself so I can only relay what my friend has said, however it appears that the software has been written specifically for authorities and schools - which is nice to know. So far the support has been excellent, and they are piloting it now. Lets you do all sorts of things like role out software at the same time to loads of machines where ever they are, (or you are), get reports back on what's happening at schools (networks), get stats and monitoring facilities, remove software and reinstall new - like removing expensive anti virus and replacing it with AVG free in one go etc. but not needing to visit each school. It looks like Capita are endorsing it for this SIMS upgrade as no one told us how long it's going to take per school - and we still can't get a definitive answer!! We're waiting to see how it goes before taking the plunge but so far it looks to be a fab piece of technology. Sorry, I don't know anymore details or the website. Marge. (Southampton)