Desktop Virtualization for K-12 & Higher Education

 

Integrating technology into the classroom is an exciting endeavor which holds massive amounts of potential for students and teachers alike. Supporting BYOD and blended learning, incorporating in-person lessons with online lessons, providing chat and Web-enhanced lectures, and simply extending learning beyond the classroom into the Internet environment enables schools with the ability to deliver on their responsibility of giving students the confidence and skills to use and succeed with technology.

Achieving More with Less

Virtualization, a shared computing strategy that maximizes efficiency by harnessing the computing power of underutilized PCs is an excellent way to bring classrooms and labs into the 21st century, in a simple and cost effective manner. Simply stated, virtualization allows you to achieve more with less by simplifying management, allowing for blended learning and collaborative technology use and by facilitating incremental rollouts.

Key Benefits of Shared Computing

• Manages one virtual desktop OS for up to 100 end users, thereby reducing the number of operating systems to maintain by up to 97%.
• Reduces the per-seat cost of a PC by more than 75%.
• Integrates easily with your existing computing infrastructure, replacing costly PCs with simple, small and very durable thin clients.
• Centrally manages Internet filtering software, ensuring a consistent and safe Internet experience.
• Frees up valuable workspace in classrooms and labs.
• Produces less e-waste & utilize less energy.
• Qualifies for monies dedicated from Grants, e-Rate, Title 1 Funding, Municipal Bonds, ESEA Flexibility and energy rebates.

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NComputing desktop virtualization

We’ve all become accustomed to the PC model, which allows every user to have their own CPU, hard disk, and memory to run their applications. But personal computers have now become so powerful that most people can’t possibly use all the processing power they purchase. NComputing desktop virtualization is a modern take on the time-honored concept where multiple
users share the processing power of a single computer. This approach has several advantages over the traditional PC model, including lower overall costs, better energy efficiency, and simplified administration.

Introduction
Over the past 30 years, PCs have changed the way we work, play, learn, and think about computer technology. From the first single-chip microprocessor in 1971 to the latest multi-core CPUs powering today’s PCs, users have come to rely upon owning and controlling their own processing power. In large part, the PC became successful because it took the processing power out of the data center and placed it directly on our desktops. But with that desktop power and control also came responsibility— the responsibility to maintain, troubleshoot, and upgrade the PC when needed. After all, the PC is a machine and all machines need regular care. As PC buyers and users, we may have welcomed the capabilities and productivity increases the PC brought, but no one warned us that even with help from a dedicated IT department, we’d have to spend over 17 hours annually maintaining our own PCs. (That annual maintenance number is more like 60 hours if you act as your own IT department.)

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India’s largest healthcare organization economically improves service to millions with 31,000 virtual desktops

The Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is chartered by the Indian government to deliver insurance and healthcare benefits to over 20 million private- and public-sector employees. ESIC provides these services through over 2,000 facilities that include hospitals, dispensaries, and branch offices across India. ESIC’s IT systems were outdated and could not provide high-quality service to its stakeholders.

Leading Indian education system outfits over 1,000 learning centers with low-cost NComputing virtual desktops

Maharashtra is India’s second largest state and includes the city of Mumbai—India’s commercial capital. In order to ensure that its workforce is ready for the modern work place, the state government established the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL) to provide adults with essential IT and computing skills. The MKCL fulfills its mission through a large network of learning centers across the state. The learning centers are operated by small and mid-sized IT enterprises

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Your administrators are calling on you to provide 1:1 access for your schools. Meeting this challenge requires investments, and in these tight economic times, that means you need to get more out of every dollar spent.

NComputing’s devices allow you to deliver a great PC experience for your students and faculty in computer labs, libraries, classrooms and administration offices at a huge savings. The average PC user only accesses 10% of the capacity of the PC they’ve been assigned as theirs – so why not use the power of one to allow access for many? With NComputing, one server grade PC can power up to 100 desktops, giving every user access to their own computer, with their own applications, and their own files, settings and preferences. Imagine what you’ll save on time, hardware and maintenance costs! Over 20 million people in more than 140 countries around the world already use NComputing everyday. See how you too can be a hero, to your students, faculty and district at large!

Solving the BYOD and Mobility Dilemma with Desktop Virtualization

As an IT manager, you want the benefits of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), and you want the productivity boost and competitive advantage that comes from having personal mobile devices in your workplace. You want to be seen as a trusted business partner, working at aligning IT with the company’s internal and external directions. For that matter, if some of your co-workers want to provide their own hardware, its great to be able to save the ear-marked costs within your equipment allocation budget and use the savings for other initiatives.
However, you’re not quite sure how you are going to effectively support these new devices, are you?

MDM and MAM

I don’t blame you. You don’t know what’s on them or how their owners use them outside of work. You may not even want them on your network.
Think about mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. As they continue flowing into your organization – Juniper Research shows the influx will double between 2012 to 2014 – you may find yourself considering strategies that depend on embracing two new acronyms:

• Mobile device management (MDM) – knowing and approving all the smartphones and tablets coming in, tracking them, protecting the data on them and deciding which apps employees can access.
• Mobile application management (MAM) – delivering and maintaining up-to-date and specialized versions of your applications that will need to be installed and run now on each device, monitoring performance, managing group/user access control and probably running an enterprise app store too.

Do you have the time and headcount for all that this entails? Even if you go the smart route and implement ready-made platforms for MDM and MAM, it’s still likely to pull your IT effort in yet another direction.
You want the functionality, muscle and physical attributes and user friendly design of the device – screen, keyboard, network connection – so that employees can work remotely and go mobile, but you’re not ready to support the devices or the apps running on them, and you don’t want to disrupt your standard configuration of operating system and applications. What you don’t want is to re-engineer your whole IT delivery strategy.
So, how can you get the brawn of mobile devices without the brain?

BYOD, mobility and desktop virtualization

You can solve the BYOD-mobility dilemma with desktop virtualization client software that runs on the device, opening a Windows 7 environment centrally hosted and managed from your server. Users launch the app to access your organization’s resources – apps, storage, printers, network – isolated from everything else on the device.

The device can be a smartphone, tablet, netbook, laptop or even a PC running Windows 8. Your users have access to a virtual Windows 7 desktop running as an independent image on the device.
Desktop virtualization helps get you out of the BYOD-mobility dilemma by letting you focus on controlling internal assets instead of trying to control the devices themselves. You manage your server and your network connections to users’ own devices, and you stay out of the business of MDM/MAM.
Consider it a simple support policy for your co-workers: “Mobile devices can access internal resources only by installing desktop virtualization software. You may use your smartphone or tablet for anything you like inside the company, as long as it’s in your Windows 7 desktop session. When you end the session and disconnect from our network, you still have all the usual functionality of your mobile device.”
Ready to see what desktop virtualization would look like in your organization?  Create an account and try vSpace Client Software for a desktop virtualization session on your computer.

Empowering 1.8 million students in India

NComputing virtual desktops have been deployed everywhere, from classroom labs to large VDI deployments with more than 30,000 workstations. The NComputing solution provides the lowest-cost computing solution to schools and small businesses, plugs into existing enterprise deployments, provides secure access to information in hospitals, and withstands extreme conditions in factories. NComputing delivers on the promise of simple, powerful and affordable computing for everyone without compromise

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