Benefits

Cloud desktop solutions offer substantial advantages to organisations looking to deliver live, instructor-led training. These benefits are particularly evident when providing IT training courses to participants located in various physical sites.

An increasing number of businesses have adopted DaDesktop for local, live, instructor-led training. This is largely due to the simplicity of pre-installing and configuring complex software applications, which can then be rapidly duplicated across dozens or hundreds of other cloud desktops.

The following highlights the key reasons why instructors, participants, and organisations select DaDesktop for their training requirements, along with the benefits they have realised.
 

Organisations (companies, educational institutions, government)

• Cost-effective
  • Utilising DaDesktop is significantly more economical than provisioning cloud machines via AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Because DaDesktop is optimised for short-term cloud desktop usage rather than long-term virtual machine hosting, a simpler and more affordable pricing structure is possible.
• Scalable
  • Organisations leverage DaDesktop to deliver IT training to large cohorts, duplicating pre-configured cloud desktops to well over 50 students simultaneously, all without issue.
  • DaDesktop servers can maintain thousands of virtual machine images at any given time, enabling the number of course participants to far exceed the capacity of a traditional classroom.
• Fast
  • With DaDesktop, cloud desktops are rapidly provisioned at the start of a training session and decommissioned shortly after completion.
  • DaDesktop cloud desktops can be duplicated 100+ times faster than AWS public-cloud instances or standard classroom workstations.
• Convenient
  • An intuitive interface allows for real-time adjustments to the learning environment, even after the class has commenced.
• Extensible
  • DaDesktop offers a streamlined process for requesting new features.
  • DaDesktop supports a public API and extensions, facilitating custom integration with third-party systems such as LDAP, OpenID-Connect, and LMS.
• Secure
  • No user data is retained on DaDesktop beyond the duration of the training session.
  • Each cloud desktop is designed as a temporary, self-contained computing environment.
• Accessible
  • There is no need to request IT department approval to allow software to bypass corporate firewalls.
  • The complete Windows or Linux operating system desktop environment is accessible via the browser, without the need to install plugins.
• Public, Private, and On-premise
  • DaDesktop can be accessed from public or private servers, offering users varying levels of exclusivity.

  • Additionally, DaDesktop can be installed on-premise within the customer's own data centre.

     

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Instructors

• Convenient
  • Instructors can provision as many cloud desktops as required, assigning one to each participant for use throughout the session.
  • Instructors can pre-install and configure a single cloud desktop with the necessary software and OS settings, then simply duplicate that desktop for all participants. This eliminates time-wasting setup issues during the class.
  • Instructors can conduct training sessions using only a browser on their laptop, from the comfort of their home or office.
• Fast
  • Instructors can spin up multiple cloud desktops for various participants simultaneously, within seconds.
• Interactive
  • Instructors can not only view participants' desktops but also take control of them at any time, mirroring a live classroom environment.
• Recordable
  • Trainers can record the entire training session to share with participants later.

  • The recorded session can be reviewed by the instructor to provide feedback and improve future course delivery.

     

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Participants

• Convenient
  • Participants can access DaDesktop from their laptop or PC browser using only a URL provided by the instructor.
  • Participants need not install any software. They simply log into DaDesktop and begin using the Windows or Linux operating system desktop environment within their browser.
  • Upon entering the training session, participants have immediate access to all tools, materials, and exercises prepared by the instructor in advance.
  • When participants switch their browser to "full-screen" mode, the cloud Windows or Linux environment occupies the entire screen. It feels like a full operating system running on the user's laptop, rather than a nested environment.
  • Participants can undertake training sessions from the comfort of their home or office.
     

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