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LEARNING WILL INCREASINGLY TAKE PLACE USING A HYBRID APPROACH THAT MORE FLEXIBLY COMBINES CLASSROOM AND REMOTE LEARNING .
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LEARNING WILL INCREASINGLY TAKE PLACE USING A HYBRID APPROACH THAT MORE FLEXIBLY COMBINES CLASSROOM AND REMOTE LEARNING .

Tareq Hassan , Senior Enterprise Sales Manager – Saudi Arabia , said : “ Learning will increasingly take place using a hybrid approach that more flexibly combines classroom and remote learning – and enables both with the latest digital technologies .

“ Educational institutions in the Kingdom are eager to embrace improved learning pathways which can present significant challenges for legacy IT infrastructure .
“ New trends such as distance learning , educational portals , BYOD , virtualisation , learning applications and instructional videos are creating new models of teaching and learning and require requisite support by campus IT systems . users . The platform ’ s ease of configuration lets institutions roll out as budgets permit-by campus , by department or by grade .
From Virtual Desktop Infrastructure ( VDI ) and Desktopas-a-Service ( DaaS ) workloads to Exchange Mailboxes to administrative tools like Infinite Campus and Pearson Education products , Nutanix provides the flexibility to run multiple applications on a single infrastructure .
This eliminates the need for expensive , dedicated resources per application , while satisfying electronic information protection regimes . Non-disruptive upgrades and all-inclusive software remove numerous points of failure , reducing the need for maintenance and the likelihood of outages .
“ IT infrastructure needs to be more adaptable than ever to address these trends under tighter budgets and with limited IT resources . Nutanix understands these imperatives and provides a simple solution for a future-proof IT infrastructure for modern educational institutions .”
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform is the industry ’ s leading hyperconverged infrastructure solution that natively converges compute , virtualisation and storage into a resilient , software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence .
Nutanix Prism is the ideal end-to-end consumer-grade management solution for the educational institutions bringing unprecedented simplicity by combining various aspects of administration and reporting .
Tareq Hassan , Senior Enterprise Sales Manager – Saudi Arabia
Nutanix delivers cost savings and predictable scalability for even the most intensive workloads with a simple scale-out architecture that enables educational institutions to start with small deployments and grow incrementally into very large installations .
The advanced architecture of the Nutanix platform enables high availability across all system components to an unlimited number of simultaneous
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