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Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The government has announced plans to make Whitehall's computer systems wholly carbon neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin... [17 Jul 2008]
Open source to 'blow mobiles open'
News Software vendor Citrix recently demonstrated the potential of virtualisation on a mobile handset by creating a Windows XP environment on an iPhone utilising a thin client. McCabe said that phones acting as thin clients also created the possibility... [30 Jun 2008]
Microsoft readies "Quebec" embedded Vista OS
News Microsoft's Windows Embedded family of products, which Microsoft sells to device makers, is designed to power thin client terminals, point-of-service terminals, gaming devices, medical-imaging systems, DVRs and industrial-automation systems, among... [06 Jun 2008]
Thin clients the route to skinny emissions?
News Thin clients have already reduced global CO2 emissions by 166,521 tonnes over the last four years - the equivalent of 504 return flights from London to New York -according to research produced by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany for thin-client... [28 Mar 2008]
IT departments told - must get greener
News In particular it is keen to position its Sun Ray thin-client devices as the green alternative to desktop PCs. Wilkinson claimed Sun uses its own thin-client technology in all its own offices and has had the same devices in place since 1999 in its... [29 Nov 2007]
Cabinet Office flexes its shared services
News It's based on a thin client architecture, which has a green dividend too. And the department's CIO Peter Court has a similar task of bolting on a modern way of thinking about IT to the established way of doing things.silicon.com Public Sector [25 Oct 2007]
Tech recycling rubbished as "stupid"
News Also speaking at the roundtable, David Angwin, European marketing manager at thin client computing company Wyse Technology, said: "It does not sound like the right approach to ship out kit which is not working properly to places where it may not... [15 Oct 2007]
Bankruptcy agency seals £20m IBM deal
News The five-year deal will see the department centralise its applications and move to a thin-client infrastructure so its 2,750 staff can better manage a rapidly increasing caseload across 35 locations. He said in a statement: "By moving from desktop... [09 Oct 2007]
Desktop PC 'not dead - but changing'
News Bozzo said innovation would come in virtualised client technologies such as thin clients, blade servers and blade PCs. Thin clients are attracting interest in sectors such as financial services and healthcare, although growing from a small base. [06 Sep 2007]
Citrix snaffles XenSource for half a billion dollars
News Citrix makes so-called thin client software that delivers business applications from servers to desktop computers. Citrix Systems has said it intends to acquire open source virtualisation company XenSource for around $500m, a day after the... [16 Aug 2007]
Mac versus PCs - the CIO verdict
News Increasing adoption of thin-client infrastructures is also tipped to have an impact on the desktop. Mark Devine, IT director at ACCA, said: "The end-points will become less important but thin devices will prevail especially in those organisations... [12 Jul 2007]
Cabinet Office flexes £32m contract muscle
News As part of the deal, staff will also start using thin client devices, which consume less energy than a traditional PC. The Cabinet Office estimates the thin client factor alone will reduce carbon emissions by more than 300 tonnes each year. [21 Jun 2007]
iPhone, Gmail and blogs - a corporate security nightmare
News Security options for these devices include restricting the ability for unapproved devices or storage to connect to managed PCs and laptops, deploying an SSL (secure sockets layer) VPN to enable secure thin-client remote access to enterprise... [15 Jun 2007]
Lean, green, theft-proof machines?
News And at the Citrix iForum this week there was no shortage of advocates willing to sway visitors further towards thin client computing. Bob Cope, operations IT manager at UK insurance company Towergate, a customer of Neoware, says he's seen no data... [06 Jun 2007]
Remote and mobile working tech "essential"
News The university environment is one where demand to be able to work from on-campus and off-campus locations is high and Newcastle University uses thin-client technologies to ensure students and academic staff can do so. [18 May 2007]
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