Rackspace Technology supports Humber College in digital infrastructure strategic shift

 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 -- Rackspace Technology™, an end-to-end multicloud technology services company, has announced support for Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning in its strategic shift to digital infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic has had profound impacts on secondary education and stay-at-home orders have forced institutions to reconsider their learning environments both now and in the future.

To support its students and staff in the transition to remote education, Humber enlisted Onica, a Rackspace Technology company, to fast-track simplified deployment of academic applications that allow students to access them anywhere and from any device.

As a result of the partnership, over 30,000 full-time Humber students are able to access coursework, lessons and resources remotely to continue their studies, according to a statement.

The effort has also allowed Humber to enable a secure ‘Bring Your Own Device’ model of accessibility for students.

With this solution, Humber is no longer limited to manually provisioning and maintaining a set number of desktop systems, which may remove the complex and time-intensive requirement to secure desktops, and instead recover campus funds for other purposes in the future.

Onica designed, tested and implemented a production-grade Amazon AppStream 2.0 environment for Humber, integrated with its on-premises data centre to simplify the deployment of academic applications.

Rackspace and Humber minimised downtime during the project by fast-tracking internal processes to eliminate weeks of lag, spinning up the initial environment in just 10 business days.

The project is set to complete in Summer 2020, with at least 80 per cent of Humber’s applications available remotely through Amazon AppStream 2.0.

-- BERNAMA