NComputing today said that it has won a contract from Wipro for deploying 31,000 virtual desktops in Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) offices and clinics across the country.
ESIC will use 31,000 NComputing thin-client workstations and vSpace Virtualization Software to outfit all ESIC offices and clinics with state-of-the-art Green IT systems.
ESIC provides health insurance and delivers medical care to over 2,200 facilities across India.
ESIC and Wipro selected NComputing's virtual desktops for 'Project Panchdeep', the largest e-Governance project in India, to streamline insurance and healthcare services that ESIC provides to employers, employees, and state and Central government workers.
The initiative includes the following:
- Issuance 20 million medical ID cards that can be used at any ESIC facility
- Creation of one of largest medical records databases in the world
- Computerization of 144 hospitals, 620 insurance branches, 1,388 dispensaries/clinics, and 51 regional offices
- Creation of a 50 million fingerprint database - the largest in India
- Rollout of a single Unified Information System that automates all ESIC processes for greater efficiency, transparency, and accountability
- Largest cloud computing deployment in India
The NComputing solution includes both the virtualization software (vSpace) that creates the "virtual" sessions inside a PC or Server, and the thin-client devices that connect the users monitor, keyboard, and mouse to the shared computer.
For the Panchdeep project, ESIC has chosen to deploy NComputing's L130 thin clients. Over 31,000 L130s will connect to Wipro desktop PCs, which then connect to the largest cloud computing environment in India at ESIC data centers.
