SUNDE Changes the Face of VDI for Education

Is it feasible to provide computing labs and learning at lower costs? Will students be able to attain the utility of the latest technology within smaller budgets?  These questions pave way for schools utilizing and implementing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solution
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VirtualDesktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides a virtual set up helping one to access the available physical resources across the entire infrastructure at full-scale. VDI brings reduced IT support due to the central management of the user profiles and resources. It renders increased data security and patch management as the data is stored centrally. Also VDI minimizes the total cost of ownership and provides better end-user experience and scalable access to the applications. VDI utilizes lower energy footprint and provides greener computing using stateless VDI devices. VDI setup has longer period than the traditional PCs, thus extending or delaying the refreshing cycle.

BlendingVDI technology with education system is a desirable venture for every school and teaching institution at present. But it is not always viable.

Most notably, VDI is harder to install than a PC or terminal server setup, especially in large deployments. One might assume that a VDI deployment would be similar to a terminal server setup, but it usually is more complicated. For most deployments of VDI, customers must take on the integration of the endpoint device with management tools, connection brokers, and VDI protocols from multiple vendors, which can significantly raise the complexity and increase the risks and fragility of a VDI deployment. And high skill levels for IT staff are typically required for deployment and maintenance.

Cost is another factor that users should go in deep. In most cases users are being misled if they think that they are going to get a direct financial boost from implementing VDI. In general, some cost savings are possible with VDI if users consider deploying cheaper thin client or zero client devices on desktops as opposed to full-blown PCs on desks. However, back-end costs for VDI server infrastructure, management tools and other costs for getting the remote desktop protocol to perform essential VDI functions and rich multimedia display could outweigh these desktop device savings.

SUNDE introduces a simple, cost-saving and still high performance VDI solution which truly meets the challenges in settings ranging from K-12 to colleges, universities, and technical schools. SUNDE VDI simplifies the deployment, costs and management of VDI with Diana as endpoint and free vPointServer software installed on the server, reducing expensive and complex deployment of software and licenses. SUNDE VDI uses Dianazero client as endpoint device, which is small with no moving parts, CPU, storage, OS or software resulting in less energy consumption. It is tamper-resistant and do not store data locally preventing data loss. Significantly, it does not require endpoint management software, no patch management, no firmware upgrades and no local OS licensing fees or updates, thus reducing virtual desktop deployment costs and improve on-going IT productivity. SUNDE’s innovative free SUNDE-VDI protocol provides the communication link between the vPointServer software and the Diana zero client devices, delivering a full PC experience including rich multimedia, full screen 1080P streaming video and Flash, and seamless responsiveness without requiring any complex or expensive protocol extensions of high end GPU configuration.

Key features of SUNDE solutions for education and academic organizations include: 

-- Uses only 5 watts when active and 0.2 watts in sleep mode thus saving more than 97% of energy that takes for PCs.

-- Longer desktop refresh cycles from obsolescence-free SUNDE zero clients.

-- Produces less e-waste & noise and saves space in classrooms and labs.

-- Complete lack of hardware eliminates endpoint data loss and maintenance.

-- Centralized management reduces support overhead; desktop-related issues can be fixed in minutes from data center without going to the machines.

-- Rapid refresh of computer labs, allowing an entire lab to be reset to a standard configuration in just minutes. 

-- Provides seamless high end performance including smooth multiple and simultaneous high quality video play.

-- Most cost-effective when compared to other vendors as purchase of SUNDE zero clients is cost-effective and software is provided free of cost.

-- Great simplicity, even an untrained person can setup and manage.

Education is being asked to do more with less — to increase access to the computing resources while lowering costs, reduce energy footprint, all within smaller budgets. With smaller budgets, hardware getting older, and IT administration reductions, make VDI the best move education organizations can make. But there are a lot of factors to consider when schools adopt the new technology. To select the right technologies and determine who is and is not a good candidate for VDI is decides whether the new venture is cost-effective or not.

SUNDE is working with you to bring new ideas to life in your education establishment. Get in touch with SUNDE by contacting by email at info@hy-elect.com or by phone at 0086-20-3229381. For more information, please visit www.sundenc.com.

SUNDE in Education

Schools and institutions are under constant pressure to meet the numerable demands and challenges growing rapidly for the faculty and students using school resources. They are supposed to have well equipped teaching rooms and labs but face budget issues in maintaining and providing infrastructure. Power consumption by traditional desktop computers with the need for space and IT staff involved in every task of administration and maintenance are the biggest challenges faced by them.

 Establishing numerous PCs with the modest endowment, fixing PC errors and updating software upgrades and refreshing cycles periodically puts in heavy workload for school IT department and administration team. These challenges pave way for utilizing and implementing a more efficient and cost saving computing solution.

SUNDE desktop virtualization technology transforms the traditional PCs to SUNDE zero client devices with more efficiency and business continuity. It renders Diana zero clients that are small and simple, with no moving parts, memory, and hard drive. Diana zero clients run on virtual desktops that are created and managed centrally from the data center.

SUNDE desktop virtualization technology provides savings on time, money and energy. The upfront cost is reduced when SUNDE zero clients are deployed to replace the expensive individual PCs. Since they have no moving parts, they consume less energy than the traditional PCs. They use only 5 watts when active and less than 0.2 watts when fully active in sleep mode thus saving more than 97% of energy. They shrink the refreshing cycle of traditional computers thus saving time and money involving in the process. Also a greener solution is provided by reducing the air conditioned rooms and labs because zero clients release much less heat when compared to PCs. By running centralized virtual desktops, SUNDE still enables a workstation to be setup in minutes and a whole lab in hours compared to days or weeks for using PCs. It also eliminates time consuming software updates and maintenance tasks, PC failures and downtime, streamlines management and improves security.

 Many schools have deployed or are now in the process of rolling out a new desktop setup using SUNDE technology and will introduce more SUNDE zero clients into student and staff facilities to achieve optimum benefits from the new infrastructure.

As leading experts in VDI for Education, SUNDE is working with you to bring new ideas to life in your education establishment. Get in touch with SUNDE by contacting by email at info@hy-elect.com or by phone at 0086-20-3229381. For more information, please visit www.sundenc.com.

Desktop Virtualization for Education

Virtualization combined with education proves more promising and potent. This excellent strategy helps students and teachers to interact and learn at low cost and high performance. SUNDE desktop virtualization offers this cutting edge technology to students and teachers with many key benefits that inculcate the computing knowledge of the 21st century to the young minds.

SUNDE virtual desktops play a vital role in providing simple and reliable virtual computing to many educational and academic organizations and schools. With their easy management and administration they meet the curriculum demands of the faculty and students ranging from K-12 to colleges, universities and technical schools. They reduce the strain of refreshing and updating of computer labs and training rooms and make the staff feel free and concentrate more on curriculum than technology. Some of the key benefits of SUNDE virtual desktops for schools and educational institutions include:

-Minimizes the management and administrative workloads and support overhead by up to 70% thereby improving staff and students’ access to resources.

-Central management of resources from the data center enables easy sharing and lessens the work of teachers as any query from one student can be answered from anywhere.

-Improves flexibility for computer labs and training rooms with fast virtual access to any desktop or software configurations allowing rapid refresh of computer labs and resetting in just minutes rather than days it takes for normal desktop PCs.

-Shared server hardware and virtualized OS can be refreshed from the data center that saves both refresh budgets and time from weeks to hours.

-Convenient desktop roaming enables a user to sign off from one client workstation and have their session “follow” them to another workstation, providing complete flexibility and scalability in the workplace.

-Enhances secured public access kiosks and workstations for offices, computer labs and libraries, avoiding malware threats, desktop corruption and equipment theft.

-Low cost provision for an individual student desktops ensuring that course syllabus and adequate software is stored on centralized servers that is secured from malware, data loss or system theft.

-Easy to install and deploy, secure and manage virtual desktops, (whether provisioning for 10 or 1000 seats)

-Lowers the total cost of ownership, produces less e-waste and reduces the power consumption that takes for a normal PC.

-Delivers rich multimedia including multiple simultaneous high quality video play to enhance a diverse way for learning and teaching.

Integrating virtualization solutions with classrooms is a very innovative endeavor and an efficient strives in the computing history that enables the gain of knowledge and access to the web. SUNDE renders desktop virtualization to schools and educational institutions at cost effective and productive rates.

 

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Cloud Computing With SUNDE Technology

Cloud computing isn’t a naïve proposition nowadays. Cloud offers its users mere benefits and helps extend many applications for the growth of their businesses providing agility, scalability and reliability thus aiding the growing demands of the IT firms. They slash unnecessary costs on hardware and software thereby increasing their dynamics in the IT market. SUNDEtechnology offers immense and powerful solutions for SMBs with virtualization techniques which lowers the cost and provides data security and integrity.

Cloud computing is based on server virtualization whereas SUNDE technology offers desktop virtualization. It is fruitful and vivid to combine them both and produce stream-lined results in a firm. Virtual desktops and their applications can be run and controlled by the cloud in a company’s computing implementation. The traditional way is that PCs were connected to the servers in the cloud through the cloud interface software so that anyone can access from anywhere in the firm through the server virtualization. Using SUNDE, desktop virtualization aids in connecting virtual desktops to physical servers connected to the cloud and anyone can access the applications by simply connecting to a web browser.

SUNDE provides H4 as endpoint device which tailor-fits to specific cloud platforms. With the use of RDP for communication, SUNDE H4 Zero client gives direct access to windows desktops by simply requiring the IP address of the RDSH (provided user account and password) without any additional support. User cloud desktops can either be web based or full desktop sessions of windows and supporting RDPcommunication. H4 has a profile setup menu and settings that include default URL, resolution, colors, monitor power save, device power sleep and kiosk mode checkbox. Some successful platforms with H4 zero clients include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Microsoft Cloud. SUNDE also uses Diana as endpoint device utilizing on-premise server to link to the cloud. These primarily run virtual machines from SUNDE VDI system on a local server. The VMs provide full benefits of a native windows desktop. Users can run cloud desktops through a web browser. Web based users need occasional access to a windows desktop or specific windows based applications and they may still be able to work within native SUNDE VDI system.

Thus SUNDE technology allows users to create virtual desktops in their firms which are connected to the servers in the cloud thus increasing the flexibility and usage of resources, high availability and reliability. SUNDE provided cloud desktops have the capability of a true Windows desktop indulging to run multiple applications which can be accessed from any location by anyone at anytime. Also SUNDE technology affirms to deliver cost effective cloud solutions that increases performance and productivity of the corporate.

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