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Solutions: K12 Education

Stoneware and Dell have partnered together in the education market to deliver a private cloud solution that focuses on supplying universal access to educational applications and content, simplifying management for IT, and reducing the costs associated with desktop computing.

1 to 1 Access

Today, Dell and Stoneware are partnering to deliver an alternative solution to 1 to 1 computing: 1 to 1 Access. 1 to 1 Access provides all students with the ability to access their educational applications, content, and documents from anywhere, using any device. Leveraging Stoneware's webNetwork, schools can create their own private cloud that provides students with a Virtual Web Desktop (webOS) of applications and services that follow them anywhere - home, school, lab, or library.

Simplify Management

Stoneware's webNetwork enables schools to shift from a desktop-centric to a private cloud computing model. In making this transition, IT departments begin to quickly recognize the benefits as more applications and services leave the desktop and are placed into the private cloud. Some of the benefits include:

• Mimimize desktop hardware and software requirements for gaining access to educational applications and content
• Centralized management of users, applications, and services via the private cloud model
• Elimination of support issues that surround home and mobile users
• The creation of a single, secure access point for all school related application and information needs

Reduce Costs

Dell and Stoneware's private cloud computing model has created a paradigm shift in how we look at the desktop. With applications and services moving into the cloud, the desktop transitions from a personal computing device to an access device. Schools are able to consider whole new categories of devices like netbooks, smartphones, thin clients, and kiosks.

This shift in thinking creates opportunities for schools to significantly reduce costs in several different ways:

• Reduce the per unit cost of desktops by shifting to netbooks such as the Dell Netbook
• Centralized management of users, applications, and services via the private cloud model
• Based on the minimum system requirements needs of a browser and network connection, schools are allowing students to bring private notebooks into the classroom
• Extend the life of legacy equipment by turning desktops into "private cloud terminals"