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Citrix education licensing to boost campus-wide adoption of desktop virtualization |
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Citrix Systems Inc. has launched a new campus-wide licensing option for educational organizations worldwide, making it easy and cost-effective to deliver unlimited virtual desktops and applications to faculty, staff members and students. The new campus-wide option is part of Citrix's Education Licensing program that helps education customers get the most up-to-date technology, even on limited budgets. Academic institutions at both the K-12 and university level have been early leaders of the virtual desktop revolution and have benefited from significant cost savings through some of the largest desktop virtualization deployments in production. With Citrix's campus-wide option, educational institutions can now leerage Citrix XenDesktop 4 on a broad scale for as little as $9 per student. In a recent survey, Citrix found that 82 percent of education IT pros see desktop virtualization as a solution for cost reduction and better use of IT resources. Educational institutions fight a perpetual battle between increasing student demands for better computing anywhere on campus and limited or shrinking IT budgets. In response, leading IT pros at educational organizations have turned to desktop virtualization solutions that extend virtual desktop access and help reduce the operating costs of managing desktops in classrooms and labs. Citrix has two options for customers based on their individual purchasing needs. Annual licenses based on the Campus-Wide Pricing range between $9 and $29 per student per year, while the Standard Education Pricing provides a 40 percent discount from the Suggested List Price on “a la carte” purchases of all Citrix products. Citrix says that the XenDesktop 4 enables IT to address the unique requirements of every student with a single, centrally-managed solution. Through its unique FlexCast delivery technology, XenDesktop 4 provides the flexibility to deliver different types of desktops to meet the distinct and varied use cases required by students – in class, from home or dorms, from PCs, Macs and smartphones. |
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