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Located in St Augustine, Florida, St Johns School District is a very large and dispersed district comprised of 17 Elementary Schools, 7 Junior High Schools, 7 High Schools, and 7 Alternative & Charter Schools, with a population of approximately 29,334 total students. Information technology is a core component in education and like most school districts as student populations grew, IT budgets tightened.
New NComputing N-series Thin Client Release Provides Exceptional HDX Experience for Latest Citrix Virtual Desktop Environments
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – August 20, 2014 – NComputing, a leader in client virtualization solutions, today announced the latest major release of its firmware for the N-series line of Certified Citrix-Ready HDX Verified thin clients.
New NComputing N-series Thin Client Release Provides Exceptional HDX Experience for Latest Citrix Virtual Desktop Environments
The Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) located in downtown Oakland, CA serves 600 students and with a teaching and administrative staff of 75 employees offers a combination of a college- preparatory curriculum and a conservatory-style arts education.
Leveraging new technology is a key competitive edge in manufacturing. Legacy systems and outdated computers are quickly replaced to drive increased productivity from the company office to the factory floor. Fleetwood Industries, a furniture manufacturer based in Holland, Michigan, was typical in that it still had old ‘green screens’ and an outdated network that could only run limited manufacturing applications.
The slowing economy and housing market woes have placed tremendous budget pressure on school districts across the United States. In Georgia, the 16,000-student Dougherty County School System (DCSS) needed to cut student computing costs while demand for more computer access continued to grow. “We looked at buying new desktops, but costs were too high, and support and maintenance would have overwhelmed our IT staff,” said Les Barnett, Educational Technology Coordinator with DCSS.
Dump That Desktop: Is Desktop as a Service in Your Future?
Dump That Desktop: Is Desktop as a Service in Your Future?
Aging computers, difficulty managing software deployments and mandatory state testing drive need for change
Old, slow and difficult to support school computers in desperate need of attention
Arctic Slope Native Association (ASNA), located in Barrow, Alaska is a Not-For-Profit JCAHO Certified Critical Access Hospital via Indian Health Services (IHS). Serving as the primary healthcare facility for the North Slope region, they rank among the top hospitals nationwide for delivering quality service and high standards of patient safety. ASNA hopes to better serve both its patients and healthcare providers in the North Slope region by increasing computing access in the most cost-effective manner.
Aging computers create drag in classrooms
Nelson County Schools was struggling with outdated computers across all of its campuses. Nearly 70 percent of the student workstations were more than five years old, creating an array of problems and adversely affecting user experience. In some cases it was taking five minutes or more just to login at the beginning of class, making it difficult for teachers to keep students focused.