Education: clean shared devices for every learner.
Lab and classroom machines reset to pristine between users; standardize endpoints and extend the life of existing hardware.
Every shared lab machine is a thousand sessions of drift.
Computer labs, library kiosks, lecture-hall PCs, and loaner laptops pass through hundreds of students. Each leaves behind files, logins, malware, and configuration changes. IT spends the term reimaging drifted machines and stretching aging hardware, while every shared device quietly accumulates whatever the last user did on it. The cleanup never ends because the state never leaves.
The pressure points in campus IT.
Constant reimaging
Drifted lab and classroom machines consume the team's time, term after term.
Residual student data
Logins and files from the last user linger on the next user's session.
Aging hardware
Heavy persistent OS images push capable machines toward early replacement.
Inconsistent endpoints
No two shared machines end the semester in the same state.
Pristine devices, longer hardware life.
Reset to pristine
Every session ends in the same verified baseline, no drift, no leftover data.
Standardize the fleet
One image, one policy across labs, libraries, and lecture halls.
Extend hardware life
A lightweight stateless layer keeps older machines fast and useful.
Central control
Provision, lock down, and repurpose any room from Switchboard.
Manual reimaging of drifted shared machines.
When devices reset themselves, the reimaging backlog disappears.
Campus IT, answered.
Can students still save their work?+
Yes, to their own cloud or network storage, exactly as your policy allows. What changes is that nothing personal is left on the shared device after they log off.
Will it run our courseware and lab software?+
Yes. ZeroCore runs your authorized applications locally and statelessly, so labs behave normally for each session.
Does it really extend hardware life?+
A lightweight stateless layer carries far less overhead than a drifted, fully persistent OS, so older machines stay responsive and serviceable longer.
“The lab machine ends every session exactly as it started. The reimaging cart can finally retire.”
See the stateless endpoint on your own hardware.
Flash an idle machine into a live endpoint and run your real workloads. You buy no hardware and sign nothing.