First Client Virtualization Adaption in Indian Government Segment..

From the beginning we have been trying to work out a solution to meet the Government Departments requirement.. The first major break came from Tamil Nadu State government.. In 2001 Tamil Nadu government was looking at adapting IT in a big way for District administration and wanted to set up a model District with the latest IT Hardware and solution..

Thiruvaroor was selected for this purpose and Mr. Uma Shankar then the District Collector was given in charge of adapting the latest technology for the solution.. (Later he was the ELCOT chairman for some time during 2006-2008).. Mr Uma shankar who was looking for solution which can be deployed much easier and can help manage from a central location and found the Thinclient concept very attractive. Every Taluk had 10 Thinclients connecting to one server and then the Data was transferred to the central server every day on dial up. Mr. Krishnamurthy (Sales) and Mr. Baradharajan (Technical) were the key members who designed the total solution..

This 100 nos deployment was a major mile stone and helped to understand the concept and the concerns related to Thinclient deployment in live environments.. This was also used as a key reference for Thinclient deployment in the Government vertical.. After this around 2002 Karnataka High Court adpated Thinclients for its operations.. (The solution was supported and driven by Justice. Baruka - Later after 8 years he played a key role in Thinclients adaption in All India District High Court Computerization project)..

Except these there was not much adaption and support for Thinclients in the Government business.. This has also to do with INTEL Launching their low cost Celeron Based PC's around this time..

After 2003- after LIC and PNB Thinclient adaption and momentum started in the BFSI segment..

Then around 2005-2006 an innovation happened locally which opened up the altogether a new market in India.. (IT & ITES..).. More details on the next post..