Benefits

For companies offering live, instructor-led training, a cloud desktop brings enormous advantages. These really come into their own when you’re running IT courses with lots of participants spread across different locations.

An increasing number of organizations have also turned to DaDesktop for local, live, instructor-led sessions, simply because it’s so straightforward to pre-install and configure complex software, then rapidly clone it to dozens or even hundreds of other cloud desktops.

Here are just some of the reasons instructors, participants, and organizations rely on DaDesktop for their training—and the benefits they’ve seen.

Organizations (companies, learning institutions, government)

• Cost-effective
  • DaDesktop works out a fair bit cheaper than spinning up cloud machines from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Because DaDesktop is tailored for short-term use of cloud desktops rather than long-term hosting, it can run on a much simpler and lower-cost pricing model.
• Scalable
  • Organizations use DaDesktop to roll out IT training to large groups, cloning a pre-configured cloud desktop for well over 50 students at once—all without a hiccup.
  • DaDesktop servers can store thousands of virtual machine images at any moment, making it easy to scale course numbers well beyond what a typical classroom can hold.
• Fast
  • With DaDesktop, cloud desktops spin up quickly at the start of a training session and shut down just as fast once it’s over.
  • Cloning a DaDesktop cloud desktop is more than 100 times faster than duplicating an AWS public-cloud machine or a classroom workstation.
• Convenient
  • A straightforward interface lets you set up and tweak the learning environment on the fly, even after the class has kicked off.
• Extensible
  • DaDesktop offers an easy path for suggesting new features.
  • It also provides a public API and extensions, so you can build custom integrations with third-party systems like LDAP, OpenID-Connect, and LMS.
• Secure
  • No user data lingers on DaDesktop once a training session wraps up.
  • Every cloud desktop is built to be a temporary, self-contained computing environment.
• Accessible
  • You don’t need to chase down IT to get firewall exceptions for the software.
  • The full Windows or Linux desktop environment runs right in the browser—no plugin installs required.
• Public, Private and On-premise
  • DaDesktop can be reached via a public or private server, giving you the level of exclusivity that suits your needs.

  • You can also install DaDesktop on-premise right in your own data centre.

     

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Instructors

• Convenient
  • An instructor can fire up as many cloud desktops as needed, giving each participant their own for the entire training session.
  • You can pre-install and configure a single cloud desktop with all the required software and OS settings, then clone it across to however many participants you need. No more faffing about with setup while the class is running.
  • Instructors can run their sessions using nothing more than a browser on their laptop, from the comfort of home or office.
• Fast
  • You can spin up multiple cloud desktops for many participants all at once, in a matter of seconds.
• Interactive
  • Instructors can not only view participants’ desktops, but can also take control of them at any time—just like in a real classroom.
• Recordable
  • The trainer can record the whole session to share with participants afterwards.

  • Recordings also let instructors review their delivery as a way to sharpen future courses.

     

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Participants

• Convenient
  • Participants can reach DaDesktop from their laptop or PC browser using just a URL the instructor provides.
  • There’s no software to install. Learners simply log in and start working within a Windows or Linux desktop environment inside their browser.
  • The moment a training session begins, participants get instant access to all the tools, materials, and exercises the instructor has set up in advance.
  • When participants switch their browser to full-screen mode, the cloud Windows or Linux environment fills the entire display. It no longer feels like an OS tucked inside a browser—more like a full operating system running right on their laptop.
  • Participants can take part from the comfort of home or office.
     

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