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ICS/COE Seminars

Utilizing Cloud Computing Technology for Supporting

Teaching within Educational Organizations

By

Saleh Alyahya

Wed. 25/2, 2:30 pm, room 22-119

Abstract

Universities and other educational institutions are continuously looking for technologies that can provide flexibility, cost-effectiveness and easy maintenance to develop their educational environments. VDI, which is stand for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, is considered as one of the cloud technologies by which the educational environment can be improved. This technology has many features and it can help students and faculty members accomplishing their tasks and saving their times as well as facilitating the accessibility to the requested virtual desktops they need either using their devices or the educational organization’s devices anywhere anytime. In the presentation, the differences between VDI and Network Desktops will be identified. Also, VDI models for undergraduate students and graduate students will be introduced.

Speaker’s Bio: Mr. Saleh Alyahya is currently a master student in ICS department at KFUPM, and he got his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 2004 from Al-gassim University. His interest is in cloud computing and virtualization.