SIMO Education Learning Technology Exhibition is being held this week in Madrid. Plenty information and technological innovations aimed at the learning sector are presented in this conference. In the context of this event, this week we’ve told you how UDS Enterprise, our VDI, app & other Windows and Linux services connection broker helps educational organizations providing more efficient learning tools to teachers and students.
In particular, we’re talking about UDS Enterprise & Moodle integration, developed by the University of Malaga together with VirtualCable to improve their Virtual Campus service, which is used by more than 63.000 students nowadays. In this post, we’re going to talk about the innovative nature of this project.
Students taking eLearning courses usually need software applications related to the courses content.
These vApp are complex to use due to commercial licenses issues. Moreover, students and teachers need technical skills to setup these applications in their PC or mobile devices.
The use of virtual machines that are accessed via web by students and teachers, reduces these issues but at the same time requires a complex user access management.
The flagship IT publication ZDNet underlines UDS Enterprise & oVirt integration for VDI deployments.
In particular, it quotes University of Sevilla case study, because this organization decided to carry out a VMware vSphere to oVirt migration in order to get important cost-savings.
The last day of August marks the end of vacation for teachers and, in a few days, it will also be the end of holidays for students. Going back to school is always a bit tough, so to make it more bearable here are a few Open Source tools that make learning more funny and help avoiding the costs of traditional propietary software:
The election of UDS Enterprise as best on premise VDI solution by CRUE-TIC and RedIRIS, the BriForum conference which will be held this week in Denver and the availability of UDS Enterprise Online Demo have been the most outstanding topics in our blog for the last two weeks.
Below you can find the links to these articles in case you didn’t have the opportunity to read them:
A committee comprised by experts from more than 20 Spanish universities have chosen UDS Enterprise as best On Premise VDI solution and second VDI Cloud solution after evaluating solutions from 15 VDI vendors.
Its “ease of use, implementation, management and deployment, its response to incidents, its stability and the integration with other applications, as Moodle” are some of the features that led it above solutions such as VMware Horizon, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or Citrix XenDesktop.
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