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How Motorola Deployed an RDP-Only Thin Client Solution

SPS is Motorola's semiconductor design and manufacturing division; according to Motorola, the 15,000 SPS employees represent about one-tenth of the company's employees worldwide. The division's Bipolar Manufacturing Complex BMC is a set of factories on three sites in and around Mesa, Arizona. PC's aren't the best clients for the SPS...

Tags: PC, Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, Division, Motorola Inc., SPS, Thin Clients, Manufacturing, Hardware

Case studies

Kingsford Stacey Blackwell Adopts Thin Client Computing From Sun Microsystems

Kingsford Stacey Blackwell is a progressive, commercial law firm. KSB's services were underpinned by a well-defined, modern infrastructure - including up-to-date information systems - to facilitate a fast and accurate response to clients' needs. The solution was a 'plug & work', zero administration thin client desktop, centrally managed from a...

Tags: Thin Client Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Kingsford Stacey Blackwell, KSB, Thin Clients, Litigation, Strategy, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Case studies

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

Best Practice Recommendations for the Use of Hardware and Operating System Virtualization in the Creation of New Virtualization Solutions

Many organizations today are interested in deploying a machine virtualization solution and are looking for a primer on the basic technology options that are available and their relative benefits and limitations. The most common approach today is Hardware Virtualization and is best represented in the commercial product VMWare ESX Server....

Tags: Operating System, Thin Client Computing, Best Practice, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Software

White papers 2007-08-01

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

Trimming the FAT!

We are in the throes of a revival. What once was not is now hot. It now looks as if thin client computing is regaining popularity. We have come full circle. We first had the terminalmainframe model, and that progressed to the very popular PC and now we are going...

Tags: Citrix, server, steven s. warren, Terminal Server, The Hot Button, Thin Client, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-13

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

Revival: Thin Client Computing

We are in the throes of a revival. What once was not, is now hot. It looks as if thin-client computing is making a comeback. We have come full circle. What's interesting, is we first had the terminalmainframe model, and that progressed to the very popular PC and now we...

Tags: server, thin client, Thin Client Computing

Blog posts 2006-06-17

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

Where's the market for Sun's pay-as-you-go?

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Tags: Desktops, Processors, Thin Client Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Scott McNealy, Sun Ray

Technical articles 2004-12-09

What's new in thin client solutions

Thin client has come, gone, and is coming around again. But what is different this time around? In this Daily Drill Down, Deb Shinder examines the state of thin client technology.Thin client computing has been around for a long time. In fact, you might say that the mainframe/terminal computing model...

Tags: Thin clients, Terminal services, Servers, Deb Shinder, thin client, server, Thin Client Computing, Microsoft Windows

Technical articles 2002-03-26

Additional Resources

Thin Client Strategies: Reducing Risk Through Centralized Computing

The purpose of this presentation is to consider the value of centralized thin client computing in organizations and evaluate how this model can help to better secure the networks. But regardless of whether thin client technologies are right for a particular organization, one needs to re-evaluate the current philosophy of...

Tags: Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware

Webcasts

Thin Client Technology

Thin Client is an industry accepted standard achieving significant savings over the cost of traditional PC's. Thin Client technology is essentially PC's without local and removable storage. This simpler model affords many advantages to the enterprise including lower acquisition cost, lower maintenance cost and better security. This paper provides an...

Tags: Thin Client, Technical Resource Group, Thin Client Technology, Thin Clients, Hardware

White papers 2004-11-09

CART - Server-Based Computing

In addition to the thin-client hardware that sits on the desktop, server-based thin-client computing requires three elements: an operating system environment that supports thin clients (Windows, Citrix, Unix, and Linux are the most common); technology that offers IT greater control over network traffic; and centralized application and client-management software. Thin-client...

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

Case studies

Securing Your Network with Thin Client Technology

Use of thin-client technology is growing in large and mid-sized businesses because of its ease of desktop management, high reliability, and low TCO. But businesses are finding that thin-client technology offers another key advantage: enhanced security. Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, featuring HP's Travis...

Tags: Network, Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware

Webcasts 2007-02-28

Thin Client Strategy Reinforces Security, Eases System Management for eBANK

This case study explains why eBANK, launched in 2001 as a specialist Internet bank, is using HP blade PCs as part of its thin client infrastructure. With its shift toward thin client computing, eBANK has been able to: Centralize CPU functions and storage Comply with regulatory...

Tags: Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Thin Client, Thin Client Strategy, Thin Clients, Hardware

Case studies 2006-02-01

NetApp Is a "Perfect Fit" for National's Showcase Thin-Client Architecture

As an advocate for thin-client computing, National Semiconductor was determined to deploy a successful thin-client implementation. The company had put in place virtually all the critical elements of a thin-client architecture, but there were challenges delivering the file-service functionality in relation to the scalability, availability, and performance required. National met...

Tags: Thin Client, NetApp, Thin Clients, Hardware

Case studies

Thin Is in - Thin Clients Save Time and Money

A thin client is a network computer without a hard disk drive. In a thin client environment, all the network intelligence resides on a central server: That's where the applications run, rather than on individual desktops. A thin client comes with its own memory, processor, Internet browser and a variety...

Tags: Network, Thin Client, Jupitermedia Corp., Thin Clients, Hardware

White papers 2004-11-03