Provide On-demand Education, Anywhere,
Anytime
Enterprise IT Solutions for
Education
Increasingly, education is going online. From providing
students with various services to managing staff and internal
resources, recruiting, and conducting classes, educational
institutions are turning to the Web to streamline processes and cut
costs. More and more schools are implementing e-learning programs
to expand the reach of their classrooms to students across town and
around the globe. Students are registering for class, applying for
financial aid, and conducting other school business online instead
of on paper. Web applications for human resources and employee
management are being used to keep track of faculty and staff
requirements. This massive online movement brings about some
demanding requirements, even beyond IT efficiency and cost
reductions, such as very high demand on application servers for
each few days when students register, absolute privacy of
information, and a server infrastructure that can adapt as more
services (for example, CPU-intensive e-learning programs) become
available online.
Citrix can help IT teams and their executives meet these
challenges to enable continuous learning and other important
education activities for students, teachers, faculty, and
administrators, and to operate more efficiently and manage
resources more effectively.
A solution that keeps pace with the business
At the heart of our solution is Citrix application delivery
infrastructure, which gives IT the flexibility to change on demand,
without changing the overall environment, and today is relied upon
by IT teams and their strategic executives at more than 200,000
organizations throughout the world. This includes all of the "Big
10" universities and more than 200 primary and secondary schools in
the United States. Citrix application delivery infrastructure is
the proven, worldwide solution for application
delivery.
With Citrix's solution, IT
can
- Deliver academic and administrative applications throughout the
university system or school district
- Extend the classroom and deliver applications off-campus to
administrators, faculty, and students
- Improve productivity of IT operations, while reducing
costs
- Ensure data privacy and speed processing end to end
- Reduce the need for additional hardware, by optimizing existing
server resources
- Enable high application availability for users, even in the
face of traffic surges
- Provide robust attack protection to prevent denial of service
(DoS), virus, and worm attacks from burdening server resources