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SMB Private Cloud for Education: Do More with Less

Increase access to computing resources without additional budgets

Universities, colleges, schools and training centers are all being asked to do more with less — how can you increase access to your computing resources while lowering costs, reducing your energy footprint, all within smaller budgets?

SMB Private Cloud helps you do more with less:

• Extend/delay PC refresh cycles.   Education customers face a dilemma — they have limited funds to replace a few PCs at a time, but simply swapping them for newer PCs does not reduce the management problems.  PCs are expensive to support and troubleshoot and take away valuable time. With SMB Private Cloud, you can rollout virtual desktops as PCs age, and repurpose them as front-ends.

• Repurpose your current budgets.  With SMB Private Cloud, you can deploy a virtual desktop for 50% less, and because it requires minimal up front cost, you can add SMB Private Cloud virtual desktopas PCs age, without needing additional capital.

• Reduce desktop support and management by over 80%.  Most schools have limited IT resources. SMB Private Cloud is easy to setup and manage and requires no re-training. And, virtual desktops cut down desktop support and management costs. If a desktop misbehaves, simply regenerate a new pristine desktop. To update and patch desktops, simply update the master image and all the desktops get the latest changes. Our education customers report an average of 85% reduction in desktop maintenance and support costs with SMB Private Cloud.

• Offer hardware independent labs and training rooms.   With SMB Private Cloud, you can extend your physical lab resources to create unlimited virtual lab combinations that students and teachers can access from anywhere, including their home.
• Everyone gets a “virtual computer”  Both teachers and students increasingly need access to a computer to prepare classes and assignments. Physical PCs take up valuable classroom space and become difficult to maintain, track and manage. Using personal laptops creates a security problem as sensitive data is now stored on PCs that may get lost or stolen. With SMB Private Cloud, you can use a few servers in the office to provide every student and teacher with a “virtual computer” that they can access from anywhere, and is secure.

• Multiple virtual labs. Using desktop templates, you can easily setup multiple “virtual labs” that run on the same physical lab equipment. Each can have different applications, different environments, and students can have access to as many of these as they need. Users can easily switch between the virtual labs or even have multiple virtual labs open simultaneously using any computer, even at their homes.
• Remote access. Give users a near-exact remote experience to sitting physically in your lab. Using SMB Private Cloud’s gateway, students and teachers can securely login remotely and get their work done.
• Lower support costs. Update the labs easily, simply update the master images and everyone gets the latest. No need to update every physical desktop individually.