VDI for Higher Education
Increase your remote learning effectiveness with a powerful virtual desktop infrastructure.
Higher institutions face unprecedented, long-term requirements to enable successful remote learning in 2020. Technology can either be a roadblock to achieving success or, a critical support structure for seamless collaboration and education.
With Google Cloud and Citrix, Burwood Group designs customized, cloud-based VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) environments with the capacity and scale to support essential classroom applications.
Technology to Improve Application Access and Collaboration
Remote Labs, Classroom Applications, and More
Virtual desktop infrastructure technology can be a powerful engine for serving the needs of a remote and diverse student, faculty, and staff population. When you virtualize applications and give students remote access from any device on or off-campus, you remove the old barriers of a costly, complex education experience. Commonly-solved challenges include:
Remote Lab Access: Heavy, 3D and graphically-intensive applications like AutoCad and Revit usually require students to complete their work on-campus at best, and in a physical computer lab at worst. With vGPUs, you can deliver graphics to remote users with the same experience they would get from a PC.
Institutional and Corporate Applications: The experience of faculty and staff in the 2020-2021 academic year is very different from years’ past. Remote access to administrative, scheduling, and payroll applications is a productivity requirement. Citrix uses application virtualization technology to deliver these apps to personal devices.
Classroom Applications: All students will require remote access to applications they take for granted, like Canvas and Microsoft. The Google Cloud infrastructure supports any variety of requirements, and in combination with Citrix provides a seamless virtual learning and collaboration space for every student, with flexible and secure storage.
Jumpstart Your VDI Environment Today
Burwood Group has partnered with Google Cloud and Citrix to create a repeatable, agile, and secure VDI solution for higher education institutions. Whether you are already using Google Cloud or not, our VDI Jumpstart will provide you with a Citrix-virtualized application running on the powerful Google Cloud infrastructure.
What's Included
Ready to get started with VDI on Google Cloud and Citrix? Burwood Group can help you pilot your first application. Our VDI Jumpstart includes:
- Google Cloud and Citrix Cloud Foundation Build
- Active Directory Core
- One (1) Domain
- High Availability
- Zone & Region Expansion Compatibility
Set-Up and Cost
We've created a straight-forward pricing model to make getting started easy. Click below for a custom estimate.
- One Time Set-Up Fee: $10,000 (Burwood may waive set-up fee pending user count; submit a custom quote request below to find out)
- Set-up completion in 7-10 business days
- Monthly Fees: Starting at $36/user/month*
- Month-to-month agreement, no contract required
We believe this cloud-based VDI solution can transform the way you support critical student and staff applications. Have questions about your specific application needs or exceptions? Click below to get a customized quote.
VDI Jumpstart Assumptions
*Above pricing estimate assumes a low-complexity application (defined as a simple application installed in standard Windows locations, not dependent on other applications, and limited integration with OS components).
GPU-enabled and/or heavy applications will require custom configuration and pricing. Submit form for quote.
Application availability is standard business hours: Monday - Friday, 7am-7pm.
Non-persistent
BYO License (Application & Microsoft License)
No multi-factor authentication
SLA’s are dependent on Citrix and GCP and may vary per region. Above pricing assumes GCP Region is Iowa.
Pricing allows up to 5Gs of storage per user
Does not include ongoing management of Citrix environment. Burwood can provide managed services at additional cost.
Why Burwood Group?
Technology planning, design, and implementation are the foundation of Burwood Group’s 20+ years as an IT consulting and integration firm. Our consultants are experts in mapping technology investments to student success and retention, faculty satisfaction, and staff productivity. Our higher education clients include public, private, and online learning institutions.
Burwood Group’s recent higher education projects have been focused on enabling students, faculty and researchers with Google Cloud and Citrix. From data warehousing and analysis to application virtualization and cloud strategy, our cloud consultants help central IT teams design environments to support educational goals.
