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Emergic Freedom (Thin Client - Thick Server) White Paper
White Papers A thin client is a stripped down version of a PC. Low end (read cheaper) PCs, old discarded (rendered useless) PC or a thin client terminal can be used. The thin client architecture uses Linux as the operating system with the KDE desktop environment.
[January 12, 2005, 23:00]
Thin Clients Are in (Again): Server-Based Computing Improves Security, Simplifies Management, Lowers Total Cost of Ownership and Saves the Environment
White Papers Thin clients are back in vogue, and this time it's not just hype. 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...
[March 7, 2009, 0:25]
ComputerWeekly - FastScale Thinks Thin to Manage Virtual Server Images
White Papers It's difficult to read anything these days on what's happening in the world of ITC without tripping on a virtual this and a virtual that. Indeed, Quocirca has researched and reported on virtuality for some years now, and identified many of the...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Thin Client Computing: Terminal Server
White Papers The Terminal Server component of Windows Server 2003 builds on the solid foundation provided by the application server mode in Windows 2000 Terminal Services. Terminal Server lets the user deliver Windows-based applications, or the Windows desktop...
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
A Year Ago: Networks '97: Citrix blasts NC architecture
News Thin client/server specialist Citrix slammed the NC architecture today, saying it was "too limited in its scope. Talking at the Networks '97 show in Birmingham, Templeton outlined Citrix's plans for its thin client/server computing architecture...
[June 25, 1998, 6:23]
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. The thin client server architecture is different.
[June 25, 1997, 12:22]
Ellison: Who needs fat clients?
News In a press question-and-answer session, preceding his remarks, Ellison explained why he believes Microsoft's fat client/fat server vision isn't as viable as Oracle's thin client/fat server one. Sources said that Michael Dell was slated to...
[November 14, 2000, 8:07]
Networks '98: NCD claim first for Windows-based terminal
News Network Computing Devices, the thin client company, is claiming a UK first at Network-telecom '98 at the NEC this week with its 'ThinSTAR' product which it claims is the first "NCD Windows-based terminal.running Microsoft's new thin client multi...
[June 24, 1998, 10:50]
'Thin' Windows 2000 debuts
News Microsoft yesterday released a new test version of Windows 2000 that will ship in thin servers, also known as server appliances. The server appliance market is one area where Windows lags behind rival platforms -- Sun subsidiary Cobalt, which...
[March 1, 2001, 12:55]
Thin Client Networking
White Papers A thin client network is a server based network where the majority, if not all, of the processing is done by the server rather than by the individual client machine(s). Software applications and programs are held and run on the server, and...
[July 27, 2007, 0:17]
Choosing the Right Thin Clients for Your System I (iSeries)
White Papers In the beginning, thin-client terminals booted from a server, had very slow CPUs with small amounts of memory, and relied on application servers to provide needed features. Today, popular software applications typically work well in a terminal...
[March 14, 2009, 0:18]
CeBIT: IBM tackles thin client confusion
News The first in a series of such variants is called "Quick On for running Windows", which enables one thin client to act as an operating system server for up to 14 other thin clients, thereby enabling each to connect directly to a Citrix Winframe or...
[March 19, 1999, 11:14]
Ultradense servers on the way from PC makers
News The era when a server the height of a pizza box seemed thin is about to come to an end. Mary McDowell, head of Compaq's Intel server division, calls the new designs "hyperdense" and expects them to arrive in 2002.
[March 1, 2001, 8:35]
IBM to court service providers with new servers
News The company will introduce the Netfinity 4000R "thin server" as the centrepiece of a campaign to provide hardware, software and services to application service providers and Internet service providers.
[September 8, 1999, 12:16]
Comdex 2001: Compaq, HP to build low-power Intel servers
News Bladed, or ultradense, models get their name because thin server motherboards are stacked up like plates in a cabinet or books in a bookshelf. Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard will be among the mainstream server makers to release single- and...
[November 13, 2001, 15:13]
Netapp Thin Provisioning: Better for Business
White Papers As these technologies enable the concept of utility computing, thin provisioning supports the concept by providing storage-on-demand functionality to ensure alignment of server and storage utilization.
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Get users diskless with Linux thin client
News Any way to extend the lifespan of existing hardware is a smart move these days, and on the Linux front, you can give life to even the slowest of hardware with the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP).
[April 2, 2003, 9:57]
Thin Client Performance
White Papers The Thin Client in this case is merely animating the screen content and sending the keyboard and mouse data to the Server. What they have seen however is that there are many instances where the performance of the Thin Client does make a big...
[March 14, 2009, 0:18]
Citrix sets sights on SMEs
News Citrix hopes to claim a bigger slice of the small to mid-range market with a low-cost version of its Presentation Server software which organisations use to deploy and manage thin-client applications.
[July 11, 2005, 14:55]
The KISS-off for virtualisation
Blog Comment As all software is centralized onto a server (server farm), the operating system that needs patching is patched just once on the server. Wyse embeds operating systems into each of their thin clients so that when they need to be patched, each of the...
[March 14, 2008, 21:55]
