Northumbria Keeps Knowledge Flowing with Citrix
February 23 2021 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Leading professional university leverages
digital workspace solutions to fuel new models for education that
enable learning from anywhere
Education today is a different game. And as universities around
the world rewrite their playbooks to accommodate the flexible
learning models that a COVID-19-world demands, many are leaning on
technology to deliver wins. Take Northumbria. Using digital
workspace solutions from Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the
leading professional university in the United Kingdom is providing
its more than 30,000 students and faculty with secure and reliable
access to the systems and information they need to connect and
learn wherever they happen to be.
“The global pandemic has fundamentally changed the way education
is delivered and forced us to rethink the way we operate,” said
Simon Corbett, IT Director, Northumbria. “We must be more flexible
than ever and create environments in which our staff and students
can safely collaborate. With Citrix, we can provide a consistent
learning experience whether they are at home or on campus and
maintain the quality of the academic programs for which we are
known.”
Changing the Game
Northumbria is no stranger to remote learning. The university
began experimenting with it in 1999, enabling about 500 users. But
when COVID-19 hit, it got serious and moved to scale its resources
to accommodate the rest of its population and the shift to
all-remote classes.
“With the outbreak of the pandemic, we had to move staff to work
from home and stop students from coming on-site,” said Simon
Corbett, IT Director, Northumbria. “We quickly needed to get a
solution in place that would provide them with access to the
resources inside the University they needed to continue working and
complete their course work without missing a beat,” Corbett
said.
With the aid of Citrix and Cetus Solutions Limited, a platinum
Citrix Solution Advisor (CSA) and Citrix Service Provider (CSP),
Northumbria implemented Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops™ service,
Citrix Workspace™, Citrix Remote PC Access and Citrix ADC Pooled
Licensing. With Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service,
organizations can deliver Remote PC Access to physical desktops as
well as virtual desktop infrastructure located on-premises or in
any public cloud.
And Northumbria is using the solution to do just this, quickly
provisioning virtual desktops with a familiar look and feel that
provide secure access to the applications and data its faculty,
staff and students require.
It is also leveraging the offering to seamlessly and securely
manage newly deployed Microsoft Azure-hosted apps and desktops
running on the Windows Virtual Desktop platform alongside its
existing on-premises apps and desktops through one centralized
location.
“We went from no infrastructure to support a Remote PC solution
to a fully operational one in a matter of weeks,” Corbett said.
Preparing for the Future
And this has provided a foundation on which Northumbria can
build the future of education, which will include both traditional
classroom and virtual learning. “With Citrix, we have secure,
scalable technology through which we can deliver applications and
desktops to our staff and students wherever they may be,” Corbett
said.
Northumbria joins hundreds of educational institutions using
Citrix solutions to power a better way to learn. To find out more
about these solutions and the value they can deliver, visit:
https://www.citrix.com/solutions/education/
About Northumbria University
Northumbria is a research-rich, business-focused, professional
university with a global reputation for academic excellence. It is
based in the heart of Newcastle upon Tyne, which is regularly voted
the best place in the UK for students. For more information, visit
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/
About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is powering a better way to work with
unified workspace, networking, and analytics solutions that help
organizations unlock innovation, engage customers, and boost
productivity, without sacrificing security. With Citrix, users get
a seamless work experience and IT has a unified platform to secure,
manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud
environments. Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000
organizations including 98 percent of the Fortune 500.
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