Benefits

A cloud desktop brings substantial advantages to organizations delivering live, instructor-led training. These gains are especially noticeable when running IT courses for multiple participants spread across different locations.

An increasing number of businesses have also turned to DaDesktop for on-site, live, instructor-led training, drawn by how easily complex software applications can be pre-installed and configured, then swiftly and effortlessly cloned to dozens or even hundreds of other cloud desktops.

Here are some of the reasons instructors, participants, and organizations choose DaDesktop for their training needs and the benefits they’ve come to rely on.
 

Organizations (companies, learning institutions, government)

• Cost-effective
  • Working with DaDesktop is significantly less expensive than running cloud machines from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Since DaDesktop is built for short-term use of cloud desktops rather than long-term machine hosting, it can offer a much simpler and lower-cost pricing model.
• Scalable
  • Organizations use DaDesktop to deliver IT training courses to large groups, cloning a pre-configured cloud desktop for well over 50 students at once without any issues.
  • DaDesktop servers can store thousands of virtual machine images at any time, making it easy to scale the number of course participants far beyond the typical size of a standard classroom.
• Fast
  • With DaDesktop, cloud desktops are quickly spun up at the beginning of a training session and then quickly shut down once the session ends.
  • DaDesktop cloud desktops can be cloned over 100 times faster than an AWS public-cloud machine or a classroom workstation.
• Convenient
  • A user-friendly interface allows you to set up and adjust the learning environment on the fly, even after the class has already started.
• Extensible
  • DaDesktop offers a straightforward channel for requesting new features.
  • DaDesktop supports a public API and extensions, enabling custom integration with third-party systems such as LDAP, OpenID-Connect, and LMS.
• Secure
  • No user data remains on DaDesktop beyond the duration of a training session.
  • Each cloud desktop is intentionally designed as a temporary, self-contained computing environment.
• Accessible
  • There’s no need to ask the IT department for permission to let software bypass the company firewall.
  • The entire Windows or Linux desktop environment is available right within the browser, with no plugin installations required.
• Public, Private and On-premise
  • DaDesktop can be accessed from either a public or a private server, giving users different levels of exclusivity.

  • DaDesktop can also be installed on-premise in the customer’s own datacenter.

     

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Instructors

• Convenient
  • An instructor can spin up as many cloud desktops as required, assigning one per participant for the entire training session.
  • Instructors can pre-install and configure a single cloud desktop with all the necessary software and OS settings, then simply clone that desktop for as many participants as needed. This eliminates wasted time fiddling with setups during class.
  • The instructor can run 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 multiple 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 moment, just like in a live classroom setting.
• Recordable
  • The trainer can record the entire training session to share with participants afterward.

  • The recorded training can be reviewed by the instructor as feedback for improving future course deliveries.

     

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Participants

• Convenient
  • Participants can access DaDesktop from their laptop or PC browser using nothing more than a URL provided by the instructor.
  • Participants don’t need to install any software. They simply log into DaDesktop and start using the Windows or Linux desktop environment right within their browser.
  • Once they join a training session, participants gain instant access to all the tools, materials, and exercises the instructor prepared for them beforehand.
  • When participants switch their browser to “full-screen” mode, the cloud Windows or Linux environment takes over the entire display, so it doesn’t feel like a nested OS inside a browser but rather like a full-fledged operating system running natively on the user’s laptop.
  • Participants can take part in training sessions from the comfort of their home or office.
     

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