Many budgets only count the initial expenditures, neglecting to account for maintenance, support, downtime, user administration costs, upgrades, updates, and other costs. Schools can be spending a substantial amount of money on technology without knowing it and without controlling it. An ASP rents applications and server space to organizations. The ASP owns, tests, upgrades, and maintains software applications and server equipment. The ASP centralizes the cost and complexity of managing and delivering applications and serves those applications over secure Internet connections to classroom and school computers.
Costs are lower than a more traditional computing environment, and there is less initial investment.
The robust thin-client design doesn1t have vulnerable openings like floppy drives where viruses can be introduced. The processing power, memory, and data stay secure on the server, lowering the risk of equipment theft at the desktop. If a device fails or is stolen, no data or information is lost, because backing up the server protects all of the intellectual resources of your classroom. Shadowing allows educators or technical support staff to control a desktop remotely to assist students or others. The tech support staff can take control of your desktop and show you how to solve a problem.