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Thin Client Computing Without "The Bill"

Many years corporate America has been looking for ways to reduce the cost of ownership associated with Microsoft Windows-based computing. For the last three years in particular, the popularity of Windows-based Thin Clients coupled with deployment of Terminal Server and Citrix has been growing at a rapid rate. In the...

Tags: Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, BOSaNOVA, Thin Clients, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2009-01-01

ComputerWeekly - Thin Client Computing Smartens Up

Thin client computing has been around for many years - predating the PC, if one includes standard green screen terminals. However, the real push with thin client devices was during the late 1990s, when the likes of NCD, Wyse and IGEL pushed their devices as being the antidote to the...

Tags: Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-02

An Analysis of Thin Client Computing

This whitepaper looks at thin client computing based on Microsoft Windows 2000 terminal services. It examines what thin client computing is, its architecture, advantages and limitations. The paper also looks at a simple cost analysis of thin verses fat. While some of the benefits and cost savings are still relevant,...

Tags: Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, Analysis, Loquinar, Thin Clients, Microsoft Windows, Terminal Services, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2008-01-01

Back to the Future: Virtualization Pushes Thin Client Computing Into the Enterprise Mainstream

For many years, industry analysts predicted that thin clients would revolutionize enterprise computing, but it was a revolution that never quite happened. Until now. Finally, emerging technologies, such as virtualization, are enabling thin clients to move into the mainstream and businesses to reap the broad range of benefits which are...

Tags: Virtualization, Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, VXL Instruments Pty, Thin Clients, Hardware

White papers 2007-09-28

Weighing in on the browser as the new OS

Weighing in on the browser as the new OSThe PC is dead! The PC is dead! Yeah … right.Thin client computing has kept on trying to take down the PC, ever since the PC significantly displaced it in the 80s. When all is said and done however, it is generally...

Tags: Web browsers, Channel management, Web 2.0, Thin Client Computing, operating system, Web browser, Web, web app, thin client app, PC

Discussion threads 2006-10-24

HP Thin Client Computing: A Financial Services Industry white paper

Recent years have seen big changes in the financial services industry driven by a number of factors - customer demand for higher service levels, the impact of deregulation, changes in employment patterns, and the ever-increasing scrutiny for good governance amongst them. In turn, these factors have had a major impact...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware

White papers 2006-07-01

HP Thin Client Computing: A Financial Services Industry Solution Brief

This HP white paper explains why thin client computing is ideally suited for today's financial services institutions, which face key challenges in the areas of customer retention, operational excellence, productivity, and compliance. Thin client computing offers banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions these benefits and more: ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, Thin Clients, Roi/Tco, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2006-06-01

The network computer--it's baaack

The network computer--it's baaackthats a funny joke....Anymore friday jokes floating around?first off, web based applications are 'ok' at best. Even the most fancy java apps, are SLOW, Difficult to Manage and hard to implement on every type of browser.this is a flash in the pain solution to networking apps.Thin computing...

Tags: Thin clients, Channel management, WiMAX, Thin Computing, Larry E., Web Based App, Thin Client Computing, network, Web, point-of-sale, computing, network computer, PC, computer

Discussion threads 2004-11-19

Server-Based and Thin Client Computing: Promise and Practicalities

This paper is intended to provide an insight into two important technology areas – Server-Based Computing and Thin Client devices. Managing distributed client server environments and the ever-evolving personal computer can be a challenge. Introducing a degree of centralisation through a Server Based Computing SBC approach can help. But does...

Tags: Thin Client Computing, Thin Clients, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2003-10-01

Thin Client Technology: Increase Control and Reduce Costs with Thin Clients and Microsoft Windows Terminal Service

Thin Client computing is now an accepted strategy for business computing. Thin Client computing is the next generation and the most technologically advanced computing created to solve the problems experienced with the computing desktops of the corporate environment. The Thin Client concept has brought about a higher level of centralized...

Tags: Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Technical Resource Group, Thin Client Concept, Thin Clients, Terminal Services, Hardware

White papers 2002-08-25

Performance of Remote Display Mechanisms for Thin Client Computing

The growing popularity of thin-client systems makes it important to determine the factors that govern the performance of these thin-client architectures. To assess the viability of the thin-client computing model, we measured the performance of six popular thin-client platforms—Citrix MetaFrame, Microsoft Terminal Services, Sun Ray, Tarantella, VNC,...

Tags: Performance, Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware

White papers 2002-04-10

Additional Resources

Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears

another nail in M$ coffinThe upcomming failure of windoze 7 and M$ going under will not leave the users exposed.Linux is here to save the day!Wrong Answerhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaks-amazon-uk-pre-order-volume-record-ousts-harry/DesperationGuess it shows how desperate Vista users are to get onto Win7Windows 7 a failure?Didn't it already surpass Linux's market share? BEFORE it's GA?Failure...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SuSE, Linux, Fedora Project, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note

Can I suggestNetbooks with Win 7. Just installed it on a useless Linux netbook and it works fine and only cost me A$399 (which now is almost the same as US ;-))For once try and rein in your hobby horse and let the students join the new millenium.On and...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NeatX, oh-so, netbook, thin client, Linux, desktop, operating system, tool

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note

My budget administrator has made it very clear that I need to have all of my ducks in a row very early for the FY 2011 budget process. The nearly year-long delay that municipalities tend to feel in terms of budget crunches is certainly going to be on her...

Tags: PC, Thin Client, Server, Thin Clients, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Oracle unveils Exadata 2 [video]

I disagree...[i]"The future is about moving from the data center to the desktop - delivering previously impossibly analytics on massive amounts of data to everyone that needs it. Companies want to learn something. Predict. Adapt as fast possible, without super computers and without great expense or a single massive check...

Tags: Thin clients, Data centers, video, Oracle Corp., thin client

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

News to know: Windows 7; IBM; Sony; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Measuring Windows 7 performance Dancho Danchev: Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Sony Vaio, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Eaton, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Next-gen operating systems: Facebook on steroids?

Chrome OS is a key building blockThis is why I think the concept of Chrome OS is so powerful.Sure you will be able to use your web apps offline, like desktop apps (thanks to HTML5/Gears), but the core functionality of the apps will live in the cloud. And because the...

Tags: Operating systems, Chrome OS, Facebook, Next-gen operating system, operating system, Next-Gen

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Thin Client Questions - some reader replies

Let's not forget about NX...... or about X in general, a gui that was designed from the outset to be networkable, and that over 9600b modems.Thanks for reminding me of MIT's Athena ProjectI worked at Digital Equipment Corporation during the time that MIT was working with IBM and Digital to...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, UNIX, thin client

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Blind to the elephant in the cloud

I like the idea of cloud computing but...For me the real elephant in the room is security, user data rights, and long term usability. For me, once these issues have been resolved, I would love to come to the cloud. I agree there are tremendous benefits for doing business in...

Tags: Virtualization, Private Clouds, NOW IT, cloud computing, elephant

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

News to know: Win7, Google Wave, Palm WebOS, Apple Tablet, Google Docs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's message to IT pros: Meet us half way with Windows 7 Larry Dignan: ...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Docs, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-30