Reducing Software Costs and Improving Performance with Server Based Computing
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Brinkley, Douglas
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2015-03
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Classroom computing in graduate education continues to grow as more and more schools include
the use of sophisticated software programs in their curriculums. Unfortunately many of these
statistics and modeling applications are quite expensive and require significant processing power.
The Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School is using
server-based computing to control software costs and improve the performance of applications.
This paper describes the school’s use of Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Services to deliver
applications to networked student computers. The virtual delivery of the software, which runs on a
server, eliminates the need to install the software on every student computer. Depending on the
software licensing structure, this can significantly reduce the required number of licenses. For
some applications it can also dramatically improve performance.
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SITE 2015 - Las Vegas, NV, United States, March 1-6, 2015
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Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.