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It pays to go virtual desktop computing, and to go green. NComputing, which makes kits that enables several users to utilize the processing power of a single PC, reports that several large American and Canadian electric utilities have qualified its products for substantial purchase rebates and rate discounts.

By Jeffrey Hastings -- School Library Journal, 2/1/2009

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If your school’s short on both desktop workstations and cash, consider going virtual. “Virtual desktops” allow a single computer to be shared among several workstations, ideally without users even realizing they’re not on individual PCs.
My school library’s online research center and dedicated catalog workgroups went virtual in September 2008 when X300 hardware and software were rolled in, along with some recycled mice, keyboards, and monitors. The X300 kits split each of our Dell Optiplex’s Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz processing power four ways, essentially doubling the amount of workstations in the library while cutting the amount of actual computers in half. While that bargain sounds too good to be true, going virtual wasn’t a shift I was initially very comfortable with, nor was it my call. That came from Howell Public Schools’ Director of Technology, Paul Pominville.

From New York City’s Public schools to the Republic of Macedonia, NComputing is spreading its virtualization products around the world.

BANGALORE, INDIA, October 31, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- NComputing has been chosen to supply a massive 5,000-school educational computing initiative in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The initiative will provide computing access to 1.8 million children throughout the state. Andhra Pradesh is the largest and most populous state in South India. Andhra Pradesh will contract leading education IT firms to build the computer labs in 5,000 schools totaling 50,000 computing seats over the coming few months. The win marks the largest single deployment of NComputing's solution in India. The decision to deploy NComputing's low-cost and eco-friendly solution establishes the government of Andhra Pradesh as an innovator in educational computing and provides a blueprint for other governments and institutions considering similar projects.