Client Highlight: Fairfax County, Virginia

For the over three years, ESI has been providing professional consulting services to support Fairfax County's business and information technology (IT) operations. ESI provides various services including but not limited to network engineering, application development, technical support, and training to support the County's enterprise-level network with multiple locations and over 17,000 workstations spread across Fairfax County.

ESI engineers are also involved with the planning, research and development (R&D), testing, integration, and evaluation or next generation technologies including but not limited to Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, and IPv6 .

With over 17,000 workstations to maintain, ESI, in collaboration with the County's IT personnel, developed a streamlined approach to deploying next generation technologies such as Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, or IPv6. We implemented a “Self-Provisioning” deployment solution that allows County personnel to control, select, and schedule the type of automated deployment of operating systems, COTS, mission-critical and/or customized applications, service packs, etc. to the desktop and/or servers. This solution offers County personnel with the flexibility to schedule their own deployment of desktop upgrades or updates.

ESI also developed and implemented a solution, called UBoot that allowed rapid deployment of complete desktop image from a single USB device. This solution is a standalone and self-contained USB-based solution that is vendor/hardware agnostic and provides rapid deployment of OS images in minutes.

Our solution offerings offer the following benefits:

• Significant reduction of required personnel to deploy next generation technologies resulting in significant reduction of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and realization of Return on Investment (ROI) in a significantly shortened time.
  
  
• Provides streamlined desktop migration and ensures consistency of system configurations such as, desktop images, across the enterprise.
  
  
• Allows phase-in approach to migration. For example, Windows Vista can be deployed on desktops in any of the following IP operational modes depending on the current stage of an organization's transition from IPv4 to IPv6:
  
  Native IPv4
  Dual-Stack IPv4 and IPv
  Native IPv6

As County personnel plan and adopt their strategies for IPv6 migration, our self-provisioning and UBoot solutions allow an easy, fast, consistent, and automated desktop migration path to IPv6.