Increasingly, education is going online. Whether it’s delivering services to students, managing internal people and resources, recruiting, or conducting classes, higher-education institutions are turning to the Web to streamline processes and cut costs. More and more schools are implementing e-learning programs to expand the reach of their classrooms, whether to students across town or around the globe. Likewise, most students now register for class, apply for financial aid and conduct most other school business not with paper forms, but online. Similarly, Web-based human resources and employee management programs keep track of faculty and staff requirements.

With this massive online movement come some demanding requirements, even beyond IT efficiency and cost-reductions. For example, although it’s a year-round concern, the demand on application servers is especially high during the few days each year when students return to class. From financial aid data to academic records and employee payroll information, privacy is paramount. And, as more services come online, including CPU-taxing e-learning programs, the server infrastructure must be able to adapt.

The Citrix Access Platform provides students, teachers, faculty and administrators with seamless, secure, on-demand access to instructional and administrative applications and information required to enable continuous learning and other important education activities. For example, with Citrix, applications and information are easily Web-enabled and rapidly delivered to any device, at any location, over any connection—including low-bandwidth and wireless. Citrix solutions also address the particular challenges of institutions of higher learning, with technology that helps them handle periodic traffic surges without a worry, ensure content privacy and extend the life of their existing server investments. As a result, schools and universities can operate more efficiently and manage their limited IT resources more effectively with the Citrix Access Platform and the power of on-demand access.

• Enable easy deployment of administrative applications throughout the university system or school district
• Enable high availability for users, even in the face of traffic surges, with advanced optimization and traffic management
• Extend the classroom and provide off-campus access to administrators, faculty and students
• Improve productivity of IT operations, while reducing costs
• Ensure data privacy end-to-end, while also speeding processing
• Reduce the need for additional hardware by optimizing existing server resources
• Provide robust attack protection to prevent denial of service (DoS), virus and worm attacks from burdening server resources