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ComputerWeekly - Thin Client Computing Smartens Up
White Papers Thin client computing has been around for many years - predating the PC, if one includes standard green screen terminals. For companies such as Citrix and Microsoft, thin client computing became an approach that was all to do with where code was...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Support grows for thin-client computing
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...
[June 6, 2007, 16:38]
Back to the Future: Virtualization Pushes Thin Client Computing Into the Enterprise Mainstream
White Papers 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...
[July 11, 2008, 3:10]
Green Benefits Put Thin-Client Computing Back on the Desktop Hardware Agenda
White Papers IT sourcing executives, though responsible for setting neither environmental agendas nor computing architecture road maps, must reacquaint themselves with the realities of thin-client provisioning to prepare a response to the various stakeholders...
[February 2, 2009, 0:00]
HP Thin Clients Deliver Affordable Classroom Computing
White Papers Pawtucket School's IT Team implemented - server-client computing utilizing HP thin clients - and the dramatic turnaround that has resulted. The Pawtucket School Department faces the same challenges as schools nationwide: reduced funding, increasing...
[June 12, 2009, 1:20]
Doubts over thin computing's green credentials
News However, Kris Kumar, director of data-centre design specialists 3i Group, said that virtualisation and thin computing simply move the energy problem from the desktop to the data centre. If you adopt a thin-computing approach and then realise the...
[September 10, 2007, 12:29]
Thin Client Computing: Terminal Server
White Papers Terminal Server lets the user deliver Windows-based applications, or the Windows desktop itself, to virtually any computing device - including those that cannot run Windows. The Terminal Server component of Windows Server 2003 builds on the solid...
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
Prejudiced against the thin
News Experts have long touted the benefits of thin-client computing, but experts have also touted the benefits of spirulina and yurts. In thin-client computing, the terminal on your desk (or in your pocket disguised as a mobile phone) doesn't compute.
[August 10, 2005, 17:05]
Deploying and Managing Thin Clients
White Papers This white paper has reviewed some of the considerations for a large-scale thin client deployment program and discussed how to design and manage a thin client computing infrastructure with Wyse Device Manager, (WDM).
[March 7, 2009, 0:25]
Thin Clients Are in (Again): Server-Based Computing Improves Security, Simplifies Management, Lowers Total Cost of Ownership and Saves the Environment
White Papers IT organizations today are giving thin-client computing a closer look because they are continually bombarded by daily security threats, overburdened by help-desk requests and hamstrung by the high cost of purchasing and managing PCs.
[March 7, 2009, 0:25]
IBM launches cloud virtual desktop service
News IBM launched on Monday its Smart Business Desktop service, a combination of thin client computing, virtualisation and the cloud, which is claimed to be the "industry's first public desktop cloud service".
[September 2, 2009, 10:49]
Wyse adds wireless access to thin clients
News Wyse has extended high-speed wireless connectivity and smartcard security support to its widely-used thin-client computing systems, with the aim of offering greater flexibility, mobility and security to users.
[July 24, 2007, 16:55]
Sun pushes environmental benefits of thin clients
News Sun has hit on a new tactic to convince reluctant IT professionals of the virtues of its thin-client approach to computing: touting the environmental benefits. Speaking at the company's quarterly update event in Washington DC on Tuesday, Sun chief...
[May 4, 2005, 15:45]
Thin Client Technology: Increase Control and Reduce Costs with Thin Clients and Microsoft Windows Terminal Service
White Papers 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...
[April 1, 2004, 0:04]
A Year Ago: Networks '97: Citrix blasts NC architecture
News Talking at the Networks '97 show in Birmingham, Templeton outlined Citrix's plans for its thin client/server computing architecture, code named Picasso, while launching WinFrame 1.7. Vice-president of marketing Mark Templeton said the NC will not...
[June 25, 1998, 6:23]
Sun adds desktops to utility computing plans
News Sun Microsystems will add a new element to its utility computing plan, letting customers rent out access to Sun Ray thin clients for desktop computing tasks. The Sun Ray products -- terminals that rely on central servers for computing horsepower...
[November 18, 2004, 8:25]
Managed Application Delivery - Is Thin Client the Best Answer? (podcast)
White Papers Thin clients and server-based computing are only one option available today. Learn how new models of application delivery are simplifying corporate computing environments and helping companies deal more effectively with their IT security...
[April 29, 2008, 1:02]
Thin Client Technology
White Papers This paper provides an introduction to Windows Terminal Services, Thin Client and Server-based Computing. This paper presents what industry analysts report and their projections on the future for Thin Client computing.
[July 31, 2009, 1:35]
Networks '97: Citrix blasts NC architecture
News Talking at the Networks '97 show in Birmingham, Templeton outlined Citrix's plans for its thin client/server computing architecture, code named Picasso, while launching WinFrame 1.7. Vice-president of marketing Mark Templeton said the NC will not...
[June 25, 1997, 12:22]
NCD to tap Intel chips for 'lean' clients
News NCD has been working with Microsoft for more than a year on thin-client computing, which uses terminals to display information processed on remote servers. Network Computing Devices (NCD) said it will develop so-called "lean client" systems, which...
[March 10, 1998, 11:28]
