Key Advantages

Cloud desktops offer substantial advantages to organizations aiming to provide live, instructor-led training. These benefits are particularly evident when delivering IT courses to participants located in diverse geographical regions.

An increasing number of businesses are adopting DaDesktop for local, live, instructor-led sessions. This is largely due to the streamlined process of pre-installing and configuring complex software applications, which can then be rapidly and efficiently cloned to dozens or even hundreds of other cloud desktops.

The following points outline why instructors, participants, and organizations select DaDesktop for their training requirements and the specific benefits they have realized.

Organizations (corporate entities, educational institutions, government bodies)

• Cost-efficiency
  • Utilizing DaDesktop is considerably more economical than deploying cloud machines from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Since DaDesktop is specialized for the short-term use of cloud desktops rather than long-term virtual machine hosting, it enables a much simpler and more affordable pricing model.
• Scalability
  • Enterprises leverage DaDesktop to deliver IT training to large cohorts, effortlessly cloning a pre-configured cloud desktop to more than 50 simultaneous students.
  • DaDesktop servers can maintain thousands of virtual machine images concurrently, allowing the scale of course participation to significantly exceed that of a traditional classroom.
• Speed
  • With DaDesktop, cloud desktops are rapidly provisioned at the start of a training session and promptly decommissioned upon its conclusion.
  • The cloning of DaDesktop cloud desktops occurs at a rate over 100 times faster than that of AWS public-cloud instances or standard classroom workstations.
• Convenience
  • A user-friendly interface enables real-time setup and adjustments to the learning environment, even after the session has commenced.
• Extensibility
  • DaDesktop offers a convenient channel for submitting new feature requests.
  • DaDesktop supports a public API and extensions, facilitating custom integrations with third-party systems such as LDAP, OpenID-Connect, and LMS platforms.
• Security
  • User data is not retained on DaDesktop beyond the duration of the training session.
  • Each cloud desktop is engineered to be a transient and self-contained computing environment.
• Accessibility
  • There is no need to seek IT department approval to bypass company firewalls for specific software.
  • The complete Windows or Linux OS desktop environment is accessible directly within the browser, requiring no plugin installations.
• Deployment Options (Public, Private, and On-premise)
  • DaDesktop can be accessed via public or private servers, offering users varying degrees of exclusivity.

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

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Instructors

• Convenience
  • Instructors can provision as many cloud desktops as required, assigning a dedicated instance to each participant for the duration of the session.
  • An instructor can pre-install and configure a single cloud desktop with necessary software and OS settings, then clone it to any number of participants. This approach prevents valuable time from being lost to setup issues during the class.
  • Training sessions can be conducted using only a browser on a laptop, allowing instructors to teach from the comfort of their home or office.
• Speed
  • Instructors can provision multiple cloud desktops for several participants simultaneously within seconds.
• Interactivity
  • Instructors can view participants' desktops and assume control of them at any moment, replicating the dynamic of a live classroom.
• Recordability
  • Trainers can record entire training sessions to share with participants post-session.

  • Recorded sessions allow instructors to review their performance and gather feedback for improving future course deliveries.

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Participants

• Convenience
  • Participants can access DaDesktop via a laptop or PC browser using only the URL provided by the instructor.
  • No software installation is required. Participants simply log in to DaDesktop and utilize the Windows or Linux OS desktop environment directly within their browser.
  • Upon joining a session, participants have immediate access to all prepared tools, materials, and exercises.
  • When participants switch their browser to "full-screen" mode, the cloud Windows or Linux environment occupies the entire screen, providing a seamless full-OS experience rather than a nested application feel.
  • Participants can engage in training sessions from the comfort of their home or office.
    

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