OREANDA-NEWS. July 26, 2011. Fujitsu today announced that it has worked together with the Education Center of the Chiba City Board of Education to deploy 8,000 new PCs to be used by all faculty and students at the city's 176 special needs elementary and junior high schools, in Japan. In addition, they have collaborated to develop the Cabinet Integration System, the first large-scale thin client system to be deployed by a major city in Japan.

Through the use of virtualization technology, the new system delivers convenience and improved efficiency by ensuring that when teachers are telecommuting, they have access to the same ICT environment used at school. Moreover, utilizing data that is stored on a centralized system enables enhanced security. The system also facilitates the effective usage of ICT assets by allowing the same terminals to be accessed by both students and faculty through separate ID input and card verification methods. Furthermore, as maintenance work for each PC can be performed remotely, the system helps reduce operations-related workloads and costs.

In the future, Chiba City and the Education Center will continue promoting the use of highly-secure ICT in education, while at the same time aiming to provide teachers with more time to attend to their students by integrating ICT into academic affairs.