Indiana University Teams with Citrix to Deliver “Personal Cloud” to 100,000+ Students, Faculty and Staff
June 07 2011 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Citrix Systems and Indiana University announced today that
IU has chosen Citrix as a preferred partner in helping the
university deliver and support virtual technologies for its
approximately 100,000+ students, faculty, and staff. The
partnership effectively creates a “Personal Cloud” where users can
access applications and data as an on-demand service — anytime,
anywhere, and on any PC, Mac, tablet or smart phone.
Using Citrix XenDesktop® with FlexCast™ technology, IU will be
able to extend a broad range of applications and data to faculty,
staff and students as a secure cloud-based service regardless of
their location. In turn, the IU community will have access to
licensed software and data storage at any time, on any device –
whether a laptop, desktop, tablet or smart phone.
The implementation, code-named IUAnyWare, comes as part of IU’s
phased initiative to establish a new model for personal computing
in higher education, and provide desktop virtualization to increase
operational efficiencies, reduce desktop support costs and increase
accessibility and security of user applications and data. The IU
initiative will utilize Citrix XenDesktop to deliver a personal
computing environment as a cloud service, and Microsoft SharePoint
for localized cloud storage. The benefits IU expects are:
- More efficient and innovative use of
human and fiscal resources
- Better and expanded service to
students, faculty and staff
- Extended life-cycle of current
equipment
- Greater opportunities for software
licensing efficiencies
- Greater security and disaster
recovery
- Greater flexibility
“Citrix XenDesktop is helping us transform the way we deliver
and support personal computing devices and applications. The IU IT
staff is spending an large percentage of support hours just
maintaining, patching and upgrading hardware and software at these
multiple locations. Staff can be utilized for higher-level
activities in IT, and in teaching, learning and research.
Virtualization allows us to more effectively use IT to support the
university’s educational mission by allowing our users to get
access to resources wherever they are and from whatever device they
choose,” said Sue Workman, associate vice president of support at
Indiana University.
Workman added that the higher education community is
increasingly demanding the flexibility to connect to university
resources whether on campus, at home or using a smart device
elsewhere. Students will gain access to the same software packages
on their machines as they have in campus computing labs, and
faculty and staff will have access to software and files wherever
they are in the world. With the ability to deliver multiple types
of virtual desktops to its user population, IU will be able to
ensure that users have access to their desktop and apps to complete
coursework from any device. The university required this type of
flexibility that also scales on the back end.
Indiana University has multiple campuses and nearly 100 labs,
some of which are shared with students from other universities and
community colleges. IU manages systems in these labs and is able to
deliver appropriately licensed software directly to the individual
student. Indiana University’s first step in the phased rollout is
delivering virtual applications to a brand new Advanced
Manufacturing Center of Excellence facility in Columbus, Ind.,
where joint ventures are underway with other local universities in
support of certification and degree programs and workforce
training. Once lab environments are up and running, IU will
continue incorporating additional users with the aim of delivering
upwards of 200 applications to university-, employee- and
student-owned devices.
“This project is part of a major initiative to rethink the way
we are delivering IT services to all of our users, and to be able
to reduce desktop support needs and deploy those resources to more
strategic initiatives. Citrix has been a key contributor and
enabler of our goals. We are looking forward to working with Citrix
to roll out virtual desktops and applications across all of our
users university-wide,” said Workman.
“Indiana University is taking a very important step in
transforming desktops and applications into a leveraged, on-demand
personal cloud service. Traditional desktop computing is expensive
and time consuming to support, especially
for university campuses where new applications and
desktop images are required every semester. Additionally, students
and faculty are demanding greater flexibility in where and how they
work, given the variety of locations they need to be during the
day. XenDesktop is helping the university to lower support costs,
increase device support, and ultimately enable virtual work styles
for all faculty, staff and students,” said John Fanelli, vice
president of marketing, Enterprise Desktops and Applications at
Citrix.
About Indiana University
In addition to providing its students one of the nation's best
and most advanced computing, networking, and technology support
environments, Indiana University is a leader in the development and
application of information technology. Indiana University manages
state, national, and international research networks; participates
in such high performance computing initiatives as the National
Science Foundation's TeraGrid and FutureGrid; partners with other
top-tier universities on open source software development; and
provides nationally recognized leadership in cybersecurity.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of
virtual computing solutions that help people work and play from
anywhere on any device. More than 230,000 enterprises rely on
Citrix to create better ways for people, IT and business to work
through virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Citrix
virtualization, networking and cloud solutions deliver over 100
million corporate desktops and touch 75 percent of Internet users
each day. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in 100
countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
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