Educational institutions encounter unique challenges when implementing VDI. Typically, student networks are separated from faculty and staff networks, necessitating sophisticated management software for seamless operation.
Challenges that often hinder educational institutions from implementing VDI solutions include:
Not enough time, budget or man hours to implement a VDI and manage endpoints
Managing a complex environment and separating student devices from faculty/staff
Managing a mixed environment of PCs, Laptops and Thin Clients
Managing many school sites across a district without needing an on premise server at each site.
Stratodesk NoTouch solves these challenges by providing secure endpoints and seamless management of your institution’s VDI, making it the top solution for educational institutions, whether operating on Citrix, Omnissa, or any other VDI environment.
K-12 and High School
School districts can use one NoTouch Center installation for all of their sites. Different administrator roles can be assigned and the software can be hosted off-premise or on-premise. NoTouch Desktop allows for the re-use of older machines along with new PCs and/or Thin Clients. Boot from local hard drives as well as from the network (PXE). This allows you to quickly boot from PCs whether or not the original OS on the end devices should be changed or not.
Higher Education, Colleges and Universities
Running a large faculty network is very similar to running VDI in an enterprise while running a VDI in a student network poses similar challenges to a high school or any other public facility environment. You will need a an endpoint OS and management solution powerful enough to handle rollouts to thousands of machines, along with one flexible enough to handle the mixed challenges you will face in a University and/or College VDI environment.
NoTouch Solves Common Issues Facing Educational Institutions
NoTouch is Extremely Easy to Setup and Use
Linux knowledge to manage your VDI endpoints. With NoTouch Desktop you can easily manage your entire network from one browser, using our intuitive and easy to use NoTouch Center.
Set Groups and Assign User Roles
Mmanage permissions and configure groups on premise or off via NoTouch Center.
Hardware Agnostic
manage a mixed environment of PCs, Laptops, Thin Clients and low cost VDI devices such as Raspberry Pis, Intel NUCs or Citrix Ready workspace hubs.
Support for Single-SignOn and smartcard readers: NoTouch supports various authentication solutions for the secure login of your staff
Save Time and Money
NoTouch OS can repurpose your existing hardware and is much cheaper than purchasing new endpoint devices. What’s more, you can now purchase and incorporate the low-cost, high-performance endpoint, the Citrix Ready workspace hub, into your VDI and manage it with NoTouch Center.
Highly Secure
NoTouch OS is Linux-based, making it impervious to attack vectors and common cyber threats. With NoTouch no data is stored locally, in case a device gets lost or breaks.
Fast and free support
All of our customers are entitled to free email-based support. For enterprise needs, we do offer premium support options with guaranteed SLAs, phone, email, and even on-premise support and services.
NoTouch runs in your preferred VDI environment. Power your PCs, Thin Clients, Laptops, and Raspberry Pis with NoTouch OS and avoid the costly mistake of using Windows lockdown.
Standardize and secure your organization’s endpoints with NoTouch OS, the most advanced Linux-based OS for VDI management and security.
NoTouch is the Endpoint OS and Management Solution of choice for educational institutions.
Resources
University of Alaska Southeast – VDI Case Study
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EDUCAUSE 2018 CITRIX Brochure – NoTouch Desktop
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How Schools, Colleges and Universities use Stratodesk Software to Solve Challenges Facing Education VDI – Whitepaper
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