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Managed Application Delivery - Is Thin Client the Best Answer? (podcast)

whitepaper Are you considering thin clients and wondering if they are right for you? Thin clients and server-based computing are only one option available today. Download this Intel Webcast in podcast format! Learn how new models of application delivery are...

Tags: thin clients, centralized, models, virtualization

[14 May 2008]

Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows XP Embedded 5.1 End User Training

whitepaper This webcast will cover key benefits of Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows XP Embedded, which offers the most advanced defense against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other malicious code attacking and infecting for specialized devices...

Tags: embedded systems

[14 May 2008]

Thin Clients: A Cost-Effective Way to Improve Security

whitepaper Enterprise thin clients can offer organizations an opportunity to achieve two seemingly contradictory goals: improving security while lowering IT costs. Thin clients are diskless desktop devices that rely on a centralized server for their computing...

Tags: thin clients, clients, achieve, client

[10 Apr 2008]

Thin Clients: Selecting the Right Desktop Strategy for Your Organization

whitepaper Thin clients can offer significant advantages when properly deployed. Furthermore, thin clients can offer "hidden" benefits, such as allowing IT departments the ability to codify and enforce IT best practices and liberate their staff to work on...

Tags: thin clients, clients, practices, client

[10 Apr 2008]

Web Browsing Performance of Wireless Thin-Client Computing

whitepaper To assess the viability of this thin-client approach, this paper compares the web browsing performance of thin clients against fat clients that run the web browser locally in lossy wireless networks. An alternative approach is wireless thin-client...

Tags: application servers, client, clients, connection

[10 Apr 2008]

Improving Web Browsing on Wireless PDAs Using Thin-Client Computing

whitepaper This paper presents the first experimental study to quantitatively compare the web browsing performance of thin-client systems versus traditional fat clients running native web browsers on wireless PDAs.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, client, pdas, browsing

[10 Apr 2008]

Saving - In Data Transmission as Well: WebWasher Reduces the Data Burden on Sparkasse Rugen’s Thin-Client Network

whitepaper To avoid the constant retransmission of graphic image content from the terminal server to clients, the WebWasher software tool was installed as an additional Internet- access filter, considerably improving the performance of terminal server clients.

Tags: thin clients, clients, terminal, terminal server

[10 Apr 2008]

IT must be called to account over emissions

Comment There are many steps that IT can take to make electricity savings, ranging from the quick and easy, such as switching off PCs overnight or using automated PC shutdown software, to the more strategic, such as using thin clients.

Tags: power, carbon emissions, data centres, green

[07 Apr 2008]

Sun Case Study: Ligare Book Printer

whitepaper By deploying Tarantella Enterprise 3 software in a Solaris environment with Sun Ray thin clients, Ligare is able to provide the head office, multiple manufacturing and distribution sites, as well as remote staff, with access to business critical...

Tags: book, manufacturing, printer, sun ray

[03 Apr 2008]

Non-Profit Agency Consolidates Servers and Increases Performance by 300%

whitepaper The organization needed a solution that would allow them to use more of the inexpensive thin clients to access network applications from off-site locations, such as a remote office site or an employee's home.

Tags: windows server 2008

[02 Apr 2008]

Thin clients the route to skinny emissions?

News The use of thin clients can play a substantial part in reducing European businesses' CO2 emissions, according to research. Thin clients have already reduced global CO2 emissions by 166,521 tonnes over the last four years - the equivalent of 504...

Tags: pc, thin client, co2

[28 Mar 2008]

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

whitepaper For many years, industry analysts predicted that thin clients would revolutionize enterprise computing, but it was a revolution that never quite happened. Finally, emerging technologies, such as virtualization, are enabling thin clients to move...

Tags: virtualization

[27 Mar 2008]

Desktop Energy Consumption: A Comparison of Thin Clients and PCs

whitepaper In these times of economic uncertainty, businesses need to think about how to maximize profits - not just by increasing sales, but also by minimizing costs wherever possible. A major cost of running a business in the modern economy comes from...

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[22 Mar 2008]

Proactive HR Enable Business Growth With Complete Virtualised IT Infrastructure

whitepaper Citrix Presentation Server enabled secure hosted desktops that could be accessed remotely by any device and ChipPC thin clients provided locked down devices for new employees. Vcentral wanted to provide Proactive HR with an affordable IT...

Tags: infrastructure management

[04 Mar 2008]

Virtual PC-Type Thin Client System

whitepaper Furthermore, the US100 offers an animation playback accelerator capability, considered unsuitable for thin clients, as well as a software phone, featuring a superior sound quality and lower incidence of acoustic delay.

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[29 Feb 2008]

Securing Your Network with Thin Client Technology

whitepaper Why thin clients are inherently more secure than conventional PCs Why thin clients are simple to deploy and manage Why thin clients are simple to replace on the rare occasions that something does go wrong

Tags: client, clients, tco, thin client

[12 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The last CD

Comment Secondly, a key element in their demise will be the deployment of real broadband at speeds greater than 100Mbps, which will see a hybrid world of thick and thin clients operating in fixed and mobile modes.

Tags: broadband, mobility, hardware, memory

[25 Oct 2007]

Distinguishing Factors in the Hospitality Industry

whitepaper The thin clients have no hard drive, floppy drive, or other such devices to break down or cause performance problems. JW Marriott is a five-star hotel in downtown Miami, Florida. The luxury hotel opened its doors in October 2000, targeting business...

Tags: hotel, winterm, european, networked

[17 Sep 2007]

Distinguishing Factors in the Hospitality Industry

whitepaper The thin clients have no hard drive, floppy drive, or other such devices to break down or cause performance problems. JW Marriott is a five-star hotel in downtown Miami, Florida. The luxury hotel opened its doors in October 2000, targeting business...

Tags: thin clients, hotel, winterm, clients

[17 Sep 2007]

Sun Virtual Desktop Access Kit for VMware Sun Desktop Virtualization Solution

whitepaper A properly designed desktop virtualization solution should allow users to access their desktop environments from an assortment of devices, such as PCs, thin clients, and compatible web browsers. As virtualization technology, which improves...

Tags: server consolidation, desktop, virtualization, data center

[11 Sep 2007]

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