V3 Systems
Education
The Challenge:
In the Education sector, two important goals are extending educational outreach to students, and maximizing IT efficiencies to lower costs. This holds true whether the institution is K-12 or higher education. V3 Systems delivers the fastest, most flexible computing solution in the marketplace today, allowing educational organizations to meet key business drivers including:
Increasing the reach and accessibility of education for students (geographically or through off-hour availability)
Enabling the Education System to do more with less money
Providing a consistent and familiar computing environment across multiple devices
Protecting student and faculty privacy and data
Ensuring regulatory compliance, such as COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998), via strong access controls
Enforcing security policies and forcing critical software updates
Widening access to educational resources for the public
Simplifying the management of complex IT solutions while delivering high-quality services
Ensuring scalability and easy, nimble deployment in getting a new installation up and running quickly
Ensuring high availability, performance and scalability
Saving money on both operational and capital expenses
V3 understands these needs, and addresses them with our technology and V3 Desktop Cloud Computing solution.
The Solution:
V3’s role: how do we fit into the Education environment?
Our Desktop Cloud Computing Appliances deliver 25 – 400 virtual Windows® desktops per unit, with guaranteed performance that is 2x – 8x faster than physical desktops. The drop-in server appliances elegantly integrate into an existing VMware infrastructure (whether at the customer site or the datacenter), providing the computing and local storage needed for hosting virtual desktops. We also offer V3’s Desktop Cloud Orchestrator software to simplify the creation, management and movement of dedicated virtual desktops, including policies for failover. This desktop management software aggregates key features that a desktop administrator would need from VMware’s vCenter and View into a centralized console.
What does this mean for you?
For school administrators, V3’s solution reduces demand on constrained school budgets with high-density appliances that economically deliver 25-400 high-performance virtual desktops from a single unit. Educational outreach and student accessibility are increased through around-the-clock virtual desktop delivery to a wide variety of endpoint devices, including desktops, smartphones, laptops and tablets. In addition, V3’s optimized technologies and management tools help reduce overhead on desktop management, saving time and money.
For students and faculty, V3’s solution improves personal productivity with easy access to educational resources through high-performance virtual desktops available any time, from anywhere, from virtually any device.
For IT desktop administrators, V3’s solution offers simple deployment and centralized management with increased performance. This means Windows updates and software patches can be pushed out to all virtual desktops in minutes (not days or weeks), saving on overhead costs. Optimized management tools save the IT department time and money. IT can provide a consistent computing environment to students across a wide range of devices.
The Results:
With V3's solution you can expect to experience the following benefits:
Increased productivity through high-performance virtual desktops — fast application and document loads save time for students and faculty
Improved data security because sensitive data is not stored on end points
Ability to work during all hours, from anywhere and from any device
More controlled access and easier management with V3’s optimized technologies and management tools
Minimized downtime for administrative operations, upgrades, and maintenance
Decreased support costs through central management of software versioning, product upgrades and software patches
Extended desktop hardware replacement cycle, since thin and zero clients become obsolete less quickly than PCs or laptops
Scalability is as easy as adding another V3 Appliance, or allocating a new appliance to a new location. V3 Solutions scale at predictable cost structures, avoiding unforeseen costly infrastructure upgrades
Single point of contact for all support needs, saving time and money
On-the-fly flexible resource allocation
Keeping within budgets by using cost-effective zero or thin clients for labs
Supporting the “Green IT Initiative” with V3 virtual desktops that are up to 80% more energy efficient than physical desktops
Providing students with a consistent set of data and applications from any device
Drop-in solution that is easy to install and manage. Appliances are pre-provisioned and pre-configured for optimal performance
