If your business already manages server resources and you’re looking for a simpler endpoint device solution, you may want to consider thin client technology. Thin clients are more flexible, easier to ...

Paul Wohlleben, a former federal CIO, consults in the federal sector. E-mail him at paul.wohlleben@gmail.com, or visit his blog at www.businessofinfotech.blogspot.com. I wrote in 2009 that federal ...

In many server applications, the most critical performance factors are drive and LAN I/O because in many situations the server quite simply serves files and this usually has minimal CPU overhead. A ...

What says the Battlefront? Would your computing needs be met with a thin client system? If that were an option for your home or your work, would you prefer it? If so, what should it look like for ...

The planned product will technically function as a thin client that access the Windows server terminal services over Microsoft's own remote desktop protocol (RDP) and Citrix's ICA protocol but also ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Thin clients? Really? Athough these ...

For Charles Hagstrand, software upgrades were nothing less than excruciating. As CIO at CapitalCare Medical Group, , a physician-owned, primary-care medical practice in upstate New York, he would ...

A few years ago, thin clients were all the rage. Leading the charge was Sun Microsystems, driven perhaps by a disdain for Microsoft, but many others were producing a variety of thin-client products on ...

Desktop virtualization-separating a PC desktop environment from a physical machine using a client-server set-up-will ramp up U.S. Defense Department computing efficiencies and cut costs significantly.

I could not agree more with Chris Dawson that, given the choice between cobbling together parts from a bunch of lame PCs and buying new thin clients, that buying new thin clients is the proper choice ...

Do you really want to manage a fleet of expensive PCs that require ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting? A growing number of businesses are saying no. Instead, they’re exploring an alternative to ...

The vendor is developing the Windows XP-based thin clients, code-named Eiger and Monch, to make it easier for system builders and partners to deploy pre-packaged thin-client solutions instead of ...