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 wrote:
On Aug 21, 2013, at 15:56 , "Eric T. Barnett" <ebarn...@astate.edu>
wrote:
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 as they seem to
be needed less and less as users have more and more tech available cheaply.
What's your take?
We definitely have fewer computer labs on campus than we used to. Even for
some applications that traditionally required high horsepower computers run
fine on today's laptops. Generally labs now are not run by central IT so much
as by individual schools and departments that have specialized needs.
Sometimes the need for a lab is driven not by specialized hardware needs but by
software licensing restrictions.
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