Education Solutions

Whether it's delivering services to students, managing internal personnel and resources, recruiting, or conducting classes, higher-education institutions are increasingly turning to the Web to streamline processes and cut costs. To fully leverage the power of the Web and networked resources, schools and universities must provide access to a wide range of applications for students, staff, contractors, and the general public from any location while meeting privacy requirements and ensuring an instantaneous user experience.

Array SPX Series appliances enable cost-effective secure access to resources for student and staff that's quick and easy and ensures privacy for student data and other confidential information. Array APV Series appliances optimize server resources and leverage advanced acceleration technologies to deliver a seamless user experience for e-learning, enrollment and other critical applications, in addition to providing comprehensive attack protection against denial-of-service, virus, worm and other unwanted attacks.

Application Delivery


Applications provide visibility into multiple areas – from financial aid information and class registration to staff benefits and faculty course loads – helping learning institutions compete for quality students while increasing efficiencies and reducing costs. Whether utilizing the Internet for employee self-service, student administration, e-learning, financials, human resources or other critical applications, the increasing reliance of schools and universities on networked resources creates a demanding IT environment.

Array application delivery solutions help improve fiscal and academic accountability, enhance the productivity of faculty and staff, and meet the increased expectations of web-savvy students so they can achieve a higher level of academic performance. Load balancing ensures application availability – even during peak registration periods, stateful packet inspection protects sensitive data including academic records and financial aid information, and integrated acceleration ensures consistent performance for all applications, including CPU-intensive e-learning.

Desktop Delivery


Using DesktopDirect, Array’s innovative remote desktop access solution, a large university in the south central region of the US deployed a realistic solution to satisfy the requirement to comply with the state’s disaster recovery mandate. Realizing that implementing a scalable disaster recovery plan could require excessive time and break IT budget, the university decided to look beyond standard VPN solutions in order to avoid installing the same applications on multiple computers and servers. DesktopDirect was the perfect solution, easily scaling to meet the disaster recovery requirement, even for an extreme situation such as a large-scale H1N1 outbreak. The resource-constrained IT department was able to deploy quickly and easily, avoiding losing valuable time that would have been required to custom-build a disaster recovery solution from VPN and web-based access methods, and was able to re-purpose many servers, saving additional costs overall.

Secure Access


In order to securely extend course information, campus updates, email, or a comprehensive education portal to remote faculty, staff and students, network administrators require a solution that provides: anytime anywhere clientless access to Web applications, client-server applications and file shares; granular access control and end-point security policies for devices beyond IT control; low deployment and support costs; and the platform performance and capacity needed to deliver a premium experience for all users – regardless of location.

Array secure access solutions fully addresses these requirements, giving schools and universities an uncompromising level of security and the ability to instantly provide access to resources from any device or location. Using SSL, Array enables secure access from any device supporting a common Web browser. Broad application support, robust endpoint security, and integrated acceleration provide the flexibility, control, and performance needed to increase productivity. And best of all, Array SSL solutions significantly reduce support costs compared to traditional VPN solutions.

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