The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) have recently revealed plans to minimise the amount spent on computers by adopting a new virtual desktop system.
The system will make the ADFG a lot more efficient by making the day-to-day routine a lot smoother for the 1,200 employees and 40 field offices that are throughout the state.
With the new IT solution the industry is also set to make a substantial saving on the $600,000 they spend per annum on actual desktops.
The ADFG finally decided to implement the virtual desktops as a way to deliver up-to-date information to their employees that are scattered across the state. This will replace existing hardware that was out of date and inefficient to run.
The virtualisation upgrade has also meant that the department can utilise some of the existing hardware as a way to cut costs, which is expected to save them up to $250,000 over the next two years.
However the decision to upgrade was not just based upon financial savings, as improvements needed to be made to improve the effectiveness of their IT system.
Corey Kos, the department's infrastructure manager, said, "In the rural areas of Alaska, we have sites connected with what I call ‘third-world country' bandwidth. We needed a solution to keep us innovative and ease some of those bandwidth constraints."
This recent upgrade now allows IT staff to centrally manage information in Juneau for various locations, including Anchorage, Fairbanks and Kodiak.
Mr Kos quipped, that the new system was a ‘catch-all’ solution as it solved many of the problems that were associated with their previous system.
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