Advantages

A cloud desktop offers significant advantages for organizations aiming to conduct live, instructor-led training. These advantages are most evident when running IT training sessions for numerous participants across various geographical sites.

A growing number of companies have also selected DaDesktop for local, live, instructor-led training in Mexico, thanks to the simplicity of pre-installing and configuring intricate software applications, then swiftly and effortlessly cloning them to dozens or hundreds of additional cloud desktops.

Here are some of the motivations that led instructors, participants, and organizations to pick DaDesktop for their training requirements and the perks they gained.
 

Organizations (companies, educational institutions, government agencies)

• Cost-effective
  • Leveraging DaDesktop is far more cost-efficient compared to cloud instances from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Since DaDesktop concentrates on short-term use of cloud desktops, rather than lengthy cloud machine hosting, it can adopt a far simpler and cheaper pricing structure.
• Scalable
  • Organizations utilize DaDesktop to conduct IT training for large groups of learners, effortlessly cloning a pre-configured cloud desktop to over 50 students simultaneously.
  • DaDesktop servers can store thousands of virtual machine images at once, enabling course participant numbers to scale far beyond the typical classroom capacity.
• Fast
  • With DaDesktop, cloud desktops are swiftly launched at the start of a training session and promptly terminated once the session ends.
  • DaDesktop cloud desktops can be replicated over 100 times faster than an AWS public-cloud machine or a traditional classroom workstation.
• Convenient
  • A user-friendly interface permits real-time configuration and modification of the learning setup, even mid-session.
• Extensible
  • DaDesktop offers a straightforward way to request new functionalities.
  • DaDesktop features a public API and extensions that enable custom integration with third-party platforms like LDAP, OpenID-Connect, and LMS.
• Secure
  • User data is not retained on DaDesktop after the training session concludes.
  • Each cloud desktop is designed as a transient, self-contained computing environment.
• Accessible
  • There’s no need to seek IT department approval for software to circumvent the corporate firewall.
  • The full Windows or Linux desktop environment is available directly in the browser without any plugin installations.
• Public, Private and On-premise
  • DaDesktop is accessible via public or private servers, granting users varying degrees of exclusivity.

  • DaDesktop can likewise be deployed on-premises within the client’s own datacenter.

     

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Instructors

• Convenient
  • Instructors can launch any number of cloud desktops, allocating one per participant for the entire training period.
  • An instructor can pre-configure a single cloud desktop with all necessary software and OS settings, then quickly duplicate it for all participants. This eliminates any wasted time fiddling with setup during the session.
  • Training sessions can be conducted entirely through a laptop browser, from the comfort of the instructor’s home or office.
• Fast
  • Multiple cloud desktops can be spun up for numerous participants simultaneously, all in a matter of seconds.
• Interactive
  • Instructors can view participants' desktops and take over control at any moment, mirroring the interactivity of a physical classroom.
• Recordable
  • The trainer can capture the entire training session to distribute to participants later.

  • The recorded session can be reviewed by the instructor as self-feedback to enhance future courses.

     

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Participants

• Convenient
  • Participants need only a URL from the instructor to access DaDesktop through their laptop or PC browser.
  • There’s no software installation required; participants just log in and start using the Windows or Linux desktop directly in the browser.
  • As soon as they join a training session, participants immediately gain access to all the tools, resources, and exercises that the instructor prepared in advance.
  • By switching their browser to full-screen mode, the cloud OS environment occupies the whole display, making it feel like a native operating system running directly on their device, rather than a browser-based one.
  • Participants can take part in training sessions comfortably from home or the office.
     

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