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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 Legacy systems and outdated computers are quickly replaced to drive increased productivity from the company office to the factory floor.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a furniture manufacturer based in Holland, Michigan, was typical in that it still had old ‘green screens’ and an outdated network that could only run limited manufacturing applications.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.
Kentucky District Achieves Sustainable Refresh Cycle for Student Workstations
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
“Nothing works as fast as NComputing’s thin client system and nothing even comes close to how easy the system is to support and maintain. We haven’t had to do any work on a student device the entire year, which is pretty incredible. That’s freed up our time to work on other things and has generated huge savings in terms of support time. It’s like nothing I’ve ever supported before. I’m completely sold on this thin client.”
Old, slow and difficult to support school computers in desperate need of attention
NComputing to Exhibit and Present on Desktop Virtualization at Campus Technology 2014 Conference
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 24, 2014 – NComputing, a leader in client virtualization, today announced its participation at the Campus Technology 2014 Conference.
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.