Luleå University of Technology Transforms Delivery of Education with Citrix®
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) partners with Luleå University of Technology (LTU) to create borderless classrooms, enabling students to learn from anywhere using Citrix DaaS. This initiative provides 19,000 students with secure access to over 300 applications, improving educational flexibility. Citrix DaaS simplifies application management and enhances security by maintaining a single, updated base image across virtual machines. LTU's model adapts quickly to technological changes, ensuring modern education aligned with student expectations.
- Enabled access for 19,000 students in days through Citrix DaaS.
- Provided secure access to over 300 applications remotely.
- Simplified application management allows rapid deployment and updates.
- Enhanced security by maintaining updated applications accessible from any device.
- Adaptable infrastructure keeps up with evolving technology for continuous improvement.
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Institution creates classrooms without boundaries, empowering students to learn from anywhere using Citrix DaaS™
“Teaching has become space independent,” said Daniel Ström CIO, LTU. “We are a university of technology and we are expected to be at the forefront in using IT to provide a superior educational experience in the classroom, the dorm room and anywhere in between.”
Borderless Classrooms
When the pandemic hit, LTU did just this, leveraging Citrix DaaS to create cloud-based workplaces through which teachers and students could access everything they needed to stay connected and continue learning.
LTU’s students use 300 different applications, some of which require significant computing power traditionally provided by powerful workstations available in on-campus computer labs. And for students to continue learning remote - often using low-powered, personal laptops and other devices - LTU needed to provide access to these applications.
It was a tall order. But LTU was able to fill it using Citrix DaaS to provide students with secure access to their desktops and applications from anywhere and Microsoft Azure to allocate the processing power and computing resources required to support them.
“With Citrix, it was very easy for us to step up and make this available for all the students through their own computers,” said
And it was able to do it quickly, enabling full remote availability for 19,000 students in a matter of days.
“When it comes to remote desktop use cases, nothing comes close to Citrix,” Ström said.
Simplified Management
One of the biggest advantages of
Enhanced Security
Another key benefit of Citrix DaaS is the enhanced security it provides.
“It’s a much safer approach than the traditional PC model,” Isaksson said. “All the apps are up to date and always available from any endpoint device.”
Modern Education
And of importance to Ström,
“Young people today are raising the bar,” he said. “When you build a new computer lab under the traditional model, you get only 12 to 24 months when it is modern. After that, the students get less and less satisfied. With the
LTU joins hundreds of educational institutions around the world who are using
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