Cornell’s Managed Desktop service will have new rates and a simplified structure starting with Fiscal Year 2017 (July 1, 2016).

Currently, the service provides over 9,400 Mac and Windows desktops and laptops with these benefits and efficiencies:

• Updates and security patches for software and operating systems
• Library of commonly used software
• University policy compliance
• Rapid response to zero-day security exploits
• Standardized environments
• Inventory reporting

The service’s light and standard versions are being simplified into a single offering, with these rates. To keep costs as low as possible, all rates include a CIT subsidy.

FY17 (starting July 1, 2016)

Special two-for-one rates:
$1.25 per endpoint per month for existing and new customers

$79 per hour for hands-on support
(One-time onboarding fee of $600 waived for all units)

FY18 (starting July 1, 2017) and beyond

1-500 endpoints:              $2.49 per endpoint per month (maximum cost to unit of $936.87 per month)
501-1,000 endpoints:      $1.87 per endpoint per month (maximum cost to unit of $1,491.49 per month)
>1,000 endpoints:            $1.49 per endpoint per month
 
One-time onboarding fee of $600 for units using the service for the first time
$79 per hour for hands-on support

More about Managed Desktop

IT directors can explore how Managed Desktop could work for their college, department, or administrative unit by contacting us at md-pc@cornell.edu (for units primarily using Windows), or md-mac@cornell.edu (for Macintosh).