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1、CASE STUDY | KINGSTONUNIVERSITYVIRTUALISED LEARNING EMPOWERS STUDENTS AND STAFF AT KINGSTON UNIVERSITYVIRTUALISED LEARNING EMPOWERS STUDENTS AND STAFF AT KINGSTON UNIVERSITYCUSTOMER PROFILEKingston University is a public research university located in Kingston upon Thames, south west London. In tota

2、l 20,000 students and 2,500lecturersandstaffarespreadacrossits fourcampusesandfivefaculties.The universityhasrecently undertaken asignificant investment torevitalise its facilities, including a 27m change program to refresh its entire IT infrastructure.The vision of Kingston University CIO Simon Har

3、rison and his team was to create a university without walls, delivering an outstanding learningexperience to students and staff 24/7, anywhere they choose to work.CHALLENGEFor the past two anda half years, Kingston University has been on an intensive digital journey, building a hi-tech environment f

4、or both studentsand teachers to achieve this ambitious vision.“In the wake of the rise of tuition fees, students today are no longer concerned with just finding the right degree,” explains Harrison. “They see themselves as consumers and theyre willing to shop around for the best university experienc

5、e.Coupledwiththat, a sophisticated, seamless relationship with technology is part of their daily lives.Kingstons digital services area crucial ingredient in overall student satisfactionand retention.”The quality of facilities and the overall experience delivered to studentshas never been more import

6、ant for the organisation.The university also faces the challenge of delivering a wide range of applications and accommodating a high end-user demand for BYOD. The range ofcoursesonofferat Kingstonmean its studentsandstaffrequire access to around 800 applications, the majority of which are graphics a

7、nddata-heavy engineeringpackages.HarrisonKingston UniversityHarrison andhis teamrealised avirtual ITenvironment held the key todelivering access to this wide range of applications from any location on any device.CASE STUDY | KINGSTON UNIVERSITYSOLUTIONIn thecourseof their learning, students areencou

8、ragedtostress IT systems to their limits, soweneededanextremely robust solution.“Wechose NVIDIAbecauseits GRID platform is specifically designed to enable users to run high graphics performance applications from any desktop in the world,”“Our initial proof of concept very quickly demonstrated that G

9、RID wasable to power through anything we threw at it.”HarrisonKingston UniversityThis is particularlyimportant for those areasoftheuniversity,suchas the specialist labs, that are not open 24 hours a day. Staff and students requiring these computing facilities outside opening hours can now simply acc

10、ess the virtual desktop via an icon on their personaldevices desktop.The university has made its powerful virtual environment highly accessible throughaveryuser-friendlyinterface.“Whenuserslogin forthe firsttime, their virtual desktop is a blank canvas,” he says. “Then they pick and choose the compo

11、nentstheyneed, composingtheirdesktopin the same waytheyre used to accessing any other app store.”CASE STUDY | KINGSTON UNIVERSITYRESULTSStudents can now engage with their academic life from any location, whether thats at home, on campus or in the local coffee shop. All they need is adevice andan int

12、ernet connection. This is particularly important for Kingstons large population of overseas students, whocan pursue their studies from anywhere in the world.“Virtual desktops allows us to make our digital services as open and transparent aspossible for end users, enabling collaboration while at the

13、same timesupportingour governance and policies to ensure the integrity and securityof information,”Its not just students who are reaping the benefits of NVIDIA GRID. Staff have embraced the universitys new digital capabilities which support a modern and flexible working style. “It wasnt a hard sell,

14、” Harrison explains. “We put the systems in place, let everyoneknow they were available and watched adoption snowball. Word of mouth turned it viral. Every month people are reporting on how virtual desktops are enablingnew experiences and shaping their working patterns for the better.”HarrisonKingst

15、on University“As we plan our next refresh cycle, we have a lot of confidence that NVIDIAs technology can supportour user requirements and deliver financial benefits throughtheproductivitygains and efficiencies it enables,” Harrison comments.Asacommercialentity,Kingston University isalso able touseit

16、s new digital systems as a selling point to recruit student and staff. The Ipsos MORI National Student Survey, which surveys all students across the UK and impacts university league tables, includes questions about IT facilities. Last year, Kingston students satisfaction with their IT experience jum

17、ped to 87%, citing their ability to access data and appswherever they are.HarrisonKingston University vSphere 6, VMware Horizon 6.11 Using K1 cards 6Moving forwards, the Kingston team sees desktop virtualisation as anincreasingly important component in delivering its services. IBM Flexblades PCi exp

18、ansion bays on each of blades to house graphics cards“Beyond specialist design and engineering packages, the graphical requirements of productivity applications like Microsoft Windows 10 and Office 2016 will mean NVIDIA GRID is essential to delivering a fantasticvirtual learning experience for all our users,” he continues. Te