Increasingly, education is going online. From providing students with various services to managing staff and internal resources, recruiting, and conducting classes, educational institutions are turning to the Web to streamline processes and cut costs. More and more schools are implementing e-learning programs to expand the reach of their classrooms to students across town and around the globe. Students are registering for class, applying for financial aid, and conducting other school business online instead of on paper. Web applications for human resources and employee management are being used to keep track of faculty and staff requirements. This massive online movement brings about some demanding requirements, even beyond IT efficiency and cost reductions, such as very high demand on application servers for each few days when students register, absolute privacy of information, and a server infrastructure that can adapt as more services (for example, CPU-intensive e-learning programs) become available online.

Citrix can help IT teams and their executives meet these challenges to enable continuous learning and other important education activities for students, teachers, faculty, and administrators, and to operate more efficiently and manage resources more effectively.

A solution that keeps pace with the business
At the heart of our solution is Citrix application delivery infrastructure, which gives IT the flexibility to change on demand, without changing the overall environment, and today is relied upon by IT teams and their strategic executives at more than 200,000 organizations throughout the world. This includes all of the “Big 10” universities and more than 200 primary and secondary schools in the United States. Citrix application delivery infrastructure is the proven, worldwide solution for application delivery.

With Citrix’s solution, IT can

• Deliver academic and administrative applications throughout the university system or school district
• Extend the classroom and deliver applications off-campus to administrators, faculty, and students
• Improve productivity of IT operations, while reducing costs
• Ensure data privacy and speed processing end to end
• Reduce the need for additional hardware, by optimizing existing server resources
• Enable high application availability for users, even in the face of traffic surges
• Provide robust attack protection to prevent denial of service (DoS), virus, and worm attacks from burdening server resources