London Grid for Learning (LGfL) select CentraStage

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BETT Show: London, UK, 11 January, 2012: CentraStage (http://www.centrastage.com) the leading IT management software provider, today announced its partnership with the London Grid for Learning.

CentraStage’s IT management technology is an important addition in the London Grid for Learning’s expansion of services for the 2,500 schools within the LGfL community. The LGfL/CentraStage partnership, delivered via the LGfL’s infrastructure and support partner, Atomwide, will see the essential CentraStage platform offered free to all LGfL 2.0 customers.

Central to this offering is the integration between CentraStage and the LGfL One Time Password solution from Atomwide, ensuring that all remote access into London schools is secured via 2-factor authentication.

Christian Nagele, Managing Director at CentraStage says: “LGfL has brought together an impressive range of services under the new LGfL 2.0 service umbrella, and we are delighted to be joining this community. Not only will all subscribing schools in London be able to take advantage of our leading audit and remote support capability for free, but it will be integrated with the LGfL’s One Time Password solution. This will provide IT support organisations and technicians within London with fully secure remote access into schools, in line with best practice and government guidelines.”

The partnership also means that LGfL customers will be able to easily and cost-effectively upgrade to the full CentraStage IT management suite – audit, monitoring, deployment and device management, remote support and reporting. Already running in over 4000 UK schools, CentraStage delivers huge efficiency savings to people supporting IT.

Brian Durrant, CEO of LGfL, comments: “By including CentraStage’s asset management and remote support technology in our LGfL 2.0 service portfolio free-of-charge, not only are we offering a market-leading IT management solution to our customers, but we are also able to deliver to London schools a truly secure network. By ensuring that all remote access into schools is secure and authenticated, we can address what has in the past been a big security hole in the education sector. In summary this new partnership with CentraStage once again highlights our commitment to deliver market-leading technology solutions to our customers at a competitive price, underpinned by an unswerving commitment to data and network security.”

Nagele concludes: “This is a very exciting partnership with LGfL, which will see CentraStage running on hundreds of thousands of devices across London schools. It is just the environment that we have designed, built and scaled the technology for – to help improve the provision and management of IT in education environments, and they don’t come much larger than London and the LGfL.”

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About: LGfL
The London Grid for Learning Trust exists to provide high quality services and online learning resources to London schools at the lowest possible costs through large scale regional aggregation. The Trust was set up in 2001 and is owned by all 33 London Boroughs. Since the termination of Harnessing Technology Grant in 2011, it has secured individual contracts for the supply of the new ‘LGfL 2.0’ integrated service directly to London maintained schools.

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by James Fletcher l January 11, 2012 l 1 Comment »