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Public Sector Tech Talk E20: Optimizing Productivity for the Higher Education Hybrid Workforce and Students

Event Overview

Many higher education institutions had begun the transition to the digital campus pre-COVID. The arrival of the pandemic drove short-term, tactical, rapidly implemented infrastructure changes to accommodate remote learning and work for all students, staff, and faculty. The duration of the pandemic has caused a tectonic, long-term shift in how institutions must deliver education, conduct research, and optimize productivity for a hybrid workforce. How do researchers keep critical projects on track when they only have limited physical access to their laboratories? Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions promote working from anywhere by enabling remote access to IT resources from any device. However, legacy virtualization options did not envision the scale required moving forward, and may not be able to deliver the required performance and manageability. This episode looks at next generation VDI solutions and how to leverage them to accelerate the transition to the digital campus.

What to expect

Higher education students, staff, and researchers must do more than learn and work in hybrid remote and in-person environments – they must do so productively and painlessly. Accelerated computing – specifically in the form of graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated VDI solutions – paves the path to success now and for the future as hybrid research, learning, and work remains the standard. During this episode, subject matter experts from WWT, HPE, and NVIDIA will discuss:
  • How the pandemic has changed the adoption and demand for VDI
  • Pain points with the old style of virtualization and why they occur
  • How next-gen GPU-accelerated VDI solutions resolve those pain points and promote productivity
  • Use cases, benefits, and lessons learned in higher education and higher education research where GPU-accelerated VDI solutions have been deployed successfully

Goals and Objectives

After viewing this episode, attendees will have a better understanding of the benefits of hyper-converged architectures in a multicloud environment and how to factor these into their agencies security strategy at the federal, state and local level.

Who should attend?

Public sector IT professionals looking to learn about emerging technologies and drivers shaping the future of government. This series is geared towards those that are developing and executing solutions that address the unique challenges faced by Federal, state and local governments, and educational organizations. In this case, a focus on digital transformation, hyper-converged architectures, cloud migration, and network security.

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