Chippewa Valley OKs $5.5 Million to Install Virtual Computers
By fall 2012, some 3,000 Chippewa Valley computers will be connected to the district's new virtual network, which will eventually allow students and staff to access school computers from home.
With its most recent $5.5 million purchase, Chippewa Valley Schools ushers in the era virtual computers, where antivirus software is irrelevant, aging computers work like new and students and staff have access their school computers from the comfort of home. After two years of research and testing in the technology department, the school board approved a $5,551,926 contract last week that will virtualize 3,000 of the district’s roughly 9,000 computers. This “virtualization” will take place over the summer and although it will affect computers across the district, students and staff won’t see many visual changes in their classrooms or computer labs. “We will be getting a very powerful computerized box that we will put in our head end at …
Jenny Whalen
1:35 pm on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Thanks for clarifying that, Craig. I use the cloud, but don't dare try to understand it. more ›