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Classroom as a Service ( CaaS ). Pilot of The IBM Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) University of Alberta and Cybera. Joint Venture. Introductions Donna Gorday – University of Alberta Acting Director Client Services Everett Toews – Cybera Senior Developer. Virtual Computing Lab (VCL)
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Classroom as a Service (CaaS) Pilot of The IBM Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) University of Alberta and Cybera
Introductions Donna Gorday – University of Alberta Acting Director Client Services Everett Toews – Cybera Senior Developer
Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) North Carolina State University & IBM Center of Advanced Studies 2004 Open Source Apache Project 2009 College System Wide True Cloud Service
University of Alberta Pilot Fall 2011 40 Students – Stata Winter Term Add 2 courses More Software University of Lethbridge
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly The Good Survey – Feedback Positive – Access to Specialized Software Anytime, Anywhere, Devices (RDP) Partnership with Cybera
The Bad Small Things Understanding Reservations Learning Curve Course Information
The Ugly Microsoft Licenses – VDA and Cals per Student Not has hard as you think Software STATA, Word, Shazam, Mathamatica, Matlab, RT, Nlogit, Sketchpad, TINspire, Fathom, Mathtype, Lego Mindstorm
What’s Under the Hood? IBM OpenStack
Getting Started with VCL Training at NCSU vcl.ncsu.edu bit.ly/vcl-docs vcl.ualberta.ca