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Dell Introduces New Thin Client Desktops, Virtual Lab 2.0 For Academia: Page 2 of 2

Dell has broadened its line of OptiPlex thin client desktop computers for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments and introduced Dell Virtual Lab 2.0 for managing VDI environments in college and university computer labs, in order to deliver in-demand academic applications. The introductions, made Wednesday, also include an OptiPlex 390 business desktop computer. New are the OptiPlex FX130 and OptiPlex FX170 thin clients, which join the OptiPlex FX100 and FX160 that are already shipping
May 26, 2011

The starting price for the OptiPlex FX130 is US$349 and for the FX170, $449, while pricing for the OptiPlex 390 starts at $671. All are available starting May 26 in the U.S. and Western Europe.

Also introduced Wednesday is the Virtual Lab 2.0 VDI management platform that is based on the recently released Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DDVS) portfolio of pretested and preconfigured hardware and software for VDI environments.

“Based on customer feedback, we’re trying to help universities transform the way that they provide computing services to their students,” said Erica Hilgeman, education solutions manager within Dell’s education business unit.

Virtual Lab 2.0 delivers six commonly used applications in college and university lab environments: Adobe Premiere Pr CS3, AutoCad 2DLT, Wolfram Mathmatica 7, Mathworks MatLab, SAS and IBM SPSS. Virtual Lab 2.0 will support seven more applications by the end of the year, Hilgeman said.

While some schools deliver the virtual image to desktops in an existing computer lab, she said others are also delivering the image to students’ personal computing devices such as laptops, tablets or smartphones.

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