A wide number of ICT experts from different organizations and most Spanish universities have met this week at RedIRIS Technical Conference 2015 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain).
One of the topics showcased in DOCENCIA-NET working group was Remote PC: 24×7 workplace. Ramón Gómez Labrador, from University of Sevilla, explained this project, which aims at “using the computer labs in the university during non-school hours using any device”.
UDS Enterprise and Moodle integration developed by Malaga University and VirtualCable, the video showing virtual desktops deployment with UDS Enterprise and Citrix XenServer and VirtualCable joining VMware Technology Alliance Program (TAP) have been the most read posts in our blog during the last two weeks.
Find below the links to the articles on these topics so you keep up with the most interesting news according to our followers:
UDS Enterprise & Moodle help the learning community
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.
