Most IT departments have virtual labs on their must-have lists or have at least considered it to solve new demand from a number of areas: online classes, reduced physical spaces and students who expect everything to be mobile.
Yet for most colleges, this goal has remained elusive due to high costs, complexity and lack of resources. Even those colleges who have implemented on-premises solutions are looking for cheaper, simpler cloud based solutions.
During this session, Allan Chen will discuss the Muhlenberg’s search for a solution and the initial rollout of a cloud based virtual lab by Apporto:
Antony Awaida will then discuss his vision for virtual labs. While a virtual lab’s main goal is to deliver a desktop or apps to end users an ideal virtual lab should also enable/deliver:
The session will conclude with a demo of the Apporto cloud service.
