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The Triangle Area YMCA
Supporting organization:
many vendors and consultants have supported this project
URL:
netsquared.org/blog/michaelatmo/managing-tech
Project Description:
With 12 branches and program offices in the Raleigh-Durham area, and 2 residential camps several hours away on the coast, this North Carolina YMCA faced serious challenges in its information technology infrastructure. Connectivity, bandwidth, software management, hardware maintenance, user support asnd training were all complicated by the number of sites and the distances involved.
All these issues were made far more managable by the adoption of thin-client computing, using Citrix to publish Windows applications over their internal net as well as the public internet, as the basis of their in-house computing. I've blogged a more detailed description of their solution here.
By the way, none of the options in the Orgranization Type select really describe the YMCA. Maybe we should have another choice for YMCA/JCC types of groups?
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