Behrend's cloud services offer a more cost-effective and secure way to access a variety of services, both on and off campus. Students, faculty, and staff can access the following services/systems from Behrend’s Cloud Services:
- Remote Desktop – Access to your PC (faculty and staff)
- Remote Lab – Access the computer lab environments and applications
- SOE Remote Project Systems - Remote virtual project systems; per instructor request
- SOE HPC Systems - Engineering project systems for data analysis; per instructor request
- VDI – Personal virtual office workstation; remotely available from the internet
Benefits to Students
- Remote access to the lab environment (from your PC, Mac, and mobile devices)
- Access to file storage via Office 365 OneDrive
Benefits to Faculty
- Remote access to your office or to the lab environment (from your PC, Mac, and mobile devices)
- Convenient for off-site class instruction or hybrid course instruction
- High-performance system availability for projects and analysis
- Instructional servers for class use
- Collaborative data services for projects and research
Benefits to Departments
- Low-cost PC replacement for faculty office workstations
- Reduced software licensing costs
- Data protected within the Penn State network (which limits financial liability for lost data on laptops or other devices)
- Collaborative data resources for departments, faculty, students, and projects