As far as .11ac, I don't see us involved for another year at least. Waiting
for .11ac laptops/tablets/smartphones to sell the inbedded chipset first.
MDM is key, looking for a product that protects mobile as well as laptop/tablets
Malware policies for users. Handle this via our NAC.
We are
We have a new Liberal Arts building that is currently in construction. The
floor plans aren't quite nailed down yet but there was something on the current
plans that made me wonder. There's no less than six computer labs in the
building. Seeing that we make all of our Freshmen buy iPads and
Thanks, Russ.
Given that you don't have the MDM product you'd like right nowdo you run
separate management systems for smartphones vs laptops/tablets?
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On Aug 21, 2013, at 15:56 , Eric T. Barnett ebarn...@astate.edu
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I was wondering just how useful computer labs are now/will be in the next two
years or so. Getting rid of most or all of those labs would cut down on costs
considerably. I've heard of some colleges dumping computer labs
Here at Temple University we centralized computer labs. We used to have
countless small labs in each School or College scattered across our campuses.
We opened a 700 computer lab with all software and access for all majors and
shutdown nearly all of those smaller labs.
We're doing a fair amount of application virtualization so students can
access many of those licensed applications from their laptops (or other
mobile devices) without needing to come to a physical computer lab.
Joe Rogers
University of South Florida
On 08/21/2013 05:06 PM, Julian Y Koh
At Old Dominion University (my previous employer) we went to a combination
of a few central labs, a virtual computer lab, and a learning commons
area. The students really embraced the learning commons which included
configurable furniture with power outlets, group meeting rooms with
I had a group of first year students over for a hosted dinner tonight, and
actually brought this subject up to them, as well as the upperclassman
advisors. Every one of them felt the labs were valuable (or would be, for
the first years), in that there are many software packages that are licensed
