Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 52 | Page 58

Case study y ////////////////// The University of Sharjah enriches education with virtualisation The University of Sharjah in the UAE has implemented virtualised desktops with VMware in an extensive project to transform the way its 14,000 students and 610 faculty members interact with IT and share information. To increase students’ and faculty members’ freedom to work from anywhere, while also increasing the efficiency of the delivery of IT services and strengthening security, the IT department decided to virtualise the desktops, using VMware VDI Horizon 7. Ro b Ir ving 58 , IT Direc tor at the h rj a ha S f ty o ersi v i n U INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com