Liberal Arts College to Give Students Studying Resort Management Access from Ski Lodge.
Fort Lee, NJ, November 7, 2005 – Whale today announced that Green Mountain College selected Whale’s Intelligent Application Gateways solution to enhance its distance-learning program, providing students secure and seamless access to course material and educational tools from anywhere.
An environmentally themed liberal arts college, the Vermont-based Green Mountain College, needed a solution that would allow them to educate their students from anywhere, including providing off-campus courses to a remote-learning facility at a mountain resort. In addition, Green Mountain College needed to provide access to the tools its students required to successfully fulfill their course criteria, including the assets of the university library. Faculty and staff also required access from anywhere to collaborative and educational materials.
“We were searching for a distance-learning solution to allow us to provide our students studying resort management at our satellite facilities in Killington, Vermont the ability to complete coursework in a timely and convenient manner,” said Donald Williams, Network Manager at Green Mountain College. “The solution had to be secure enough not only to provide this access but also had to allow us to leverage the college’s information infrastructure for the benefit of all of our 700-plus students. Whale’s Intelligent Application Gateways solution not only enabled us to do both but it exceeded our expectations by providing an easy and cost-effective way for extending anywhere access to our Lexus-Nexus database which is designed for LAN access only. Our staff and students, for example, now can access more than 20,000 electronic full text books from the convenience of any Internet-connected device.”
Selected by leading organizations around the world Whale’s technology offers exceptional flexibility without compromising on security. Its Intelligent Application Gateways provide deep levels of security policy granularity, enhanced and seamless user experience and easy integration into existing network infrastructures and key business applications and resources.
“We are pleased that an academic institution like Green Mountain College selected Whale for its unsurpassed ability to provide secure and intuitive access to educational information and materials from anywhere,” said Roger Pilc, CEO of Whale Communications. “We strive to ensure that our clients are able to meet the continued and often unique criteria that their specific end-users require.”
Whale’s client base includes government as well as household and Global 1000 enterprises. Clients include: United States National Park Service, Regis University, the University of South Florida, Britain’s Labour Party, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Dominion Resources, The Financial Times, Loews Corporation, Mutual of Omaha and Loews.
About Green Mountain College
Founded in 1834, Green Mountain College is a 4-year private coeducational institution that takes the environment as a unifying theme across its liberal arts curriculum. Headquartered in Poultney, Vermont with a satellite campus in Killington, Vermont, the College offers 25 majors and special programs to its 700 students. The College has nationally recognized programs in environmental studies, adventure recreation, business, and education in addition to a full complement of liberal arts majors. For more information about Green Mountain College visit: http://www.greenmtn.edu/ .
About Whale
Whale is the leading provider of business driven secure access products, including SSL VPN, application security and endpoint security offerings. A pioneer in secure application layer access, Whale’s products are deployed globally by the world’s leading organizations to extend their businesses. Today over two million employees, business partners and customer users securely and easily access their critical business applications and resources through Whale’s Intelligent Application Gateway products. The company is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey and has international offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel and representation in France.
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Aimee Rhodes
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