Classroom as a Service (CaaS) Pilot of The IBM Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) University of Alberta and Cybera

Joint Venture

Introductions

Donna Gorday – University of Alberta

Acting Director Client Services

Everett Toews – Cybera

Senior Developer

•Virtual Computing Lab (VCL)

•North Carolina State University & IBM Center of Advanced Studies 2004

•Open Source Apache Project 2009

•College System Wide

•True Cloud Service

Virtual Computing Lab- UNC/IBM

University of Alberta

Pilot Fall 2011

40 Students – Stata

Winter Term

Add 2 courses

More Software

University of Lethbridge

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

The Good

Survey – Feedback

Positive – Access to Specialized Software

Anytime, Anywhere, Devices (RDP)

Partnership with Cybera

The Bad

Small Things

Understanding Reservations

Learning Curve

Course Information

The Ugly

Microsoft Licenses – VDA and Cals per Student

Not has hard as you think

Software

STATA, Word, Shazam, Mathamatica,

Matlab, RT, Nlogit, Sketchpad, TINspire, Fathom, Mathtype, Lego Mindstorm

DEMO

What’s Under the Hood?

IBM

OpenStack

Getting Started with VCL

Training at NCSU

vcl.ncsu.edu

bit.ly/vcl-docs

vcl.ualberta.ca

Questions