Todays biggest question

More and more people are mulling on it….."Thin client mania or Wishful thinking ?"
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/dcc/?p=116

The above article briefly touches on the different developments in this are over the last one year - and tries to make sense of the question above.

The Future of the PC at homes

Heres another very interesting article on the Future of the PC.
http://www.binarycreativity.com/2007/04/20/the-pc-is-dead-long-live-the-console/

"The desktop PC is always going to have a place at work, but at some point there, it may be replaced by thin clients.

However, in order to see why it’s going to be fast replaced at home, we have to recognize what people use their desktop PCs for. Firstly, there is the communication aspect of it. This includes e-mail, messaging, surfing the web, etc. Then, there’s the entertainment aspect of it. This includes playing games, watching movies, TV, and browsing the internet. I’d say for at least 80% of PC users, that’s it. An astute reader will notice that consoles (like the Xbox and PS3) already do all the entertainment aspects of a home PC, and a cell phone does all the communication aspects of it. Presently, they might not do them as well, but that may change."

Do take time to go through - its an interesting point of view.

Thin Clients enter the home

We have been speaking about this for some time now….Thin Clients getting into homes.

Below is a small blog post of a manufacturer called SkinnyPC - who is actively pushing and promoting this concept. We have seen versions of this trial beginning to happen in India also.

Do go through.
http://www.johnkellett.co.uk/index.php/2007/04/17/thin-clients-for-the-home/

Pengiuns join the thin brigade

We have spoken about his earlier - but more details are now emerging on this.
The Penguins ARE also going thin.

Do go through.
http://www.it-director.com/business/content.php?cid=9420

And now - Mobile Thinclients

As the thin client concept is catching the imagination of the corporate world - as with all technologies - we see new adaptations / variations of the basic technology emerging.

One such interesting variant that has begun to be talked about is the "Mobile Thinclient".

The basic idea here is that a mobile thin client can mitigate the key enterprise risk associated with the proliferation of the mobile workforce - mobile users can get access to their information anywhere, anytime while the data is always kept secure, by being ‘in’ the enterprise.

Very interesting - do go through.
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11295/53/

YOU have the power

Heres an interesting paper comparing energy consumption in PCs vs Thin clients.
(You need to click on the text - after you arrive at the page)

Very interesting - do go through.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Desktop_Energy_Consumption_A_Comparison_of_Thin_Clients_and_PCs/who

Virtualization through VDI

Server based computing is the simplest avatar of Client Virtualization.

As the complexity of the applications increase, we adopt different technologies to deliver the same client virtualized experience to customers. One such technology is VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) from vmware.

What exactly is VDI ? How does it work ?
Pictures speak louder than words….. Do take time to go through this Flash demo......
www.hp.com/go/vdi

MS joins the chorus

Here is some breaking news - that can give a BIG BIG boost - to thin client computing.
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/applications/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198701971

Despite its former reluctance to support thin-client computing, Microsoft is now loosening up on its stand. First, they are going to permit streaming Vista directly to thin clients, allowing it to boot from the network instead of a local hard drive. The other change is a new subscription license called Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktops (VECD). VECD lets customers to host Vista as virtual machines on something like VMware or Virtual PC.

With the company married to desktops, now changing its stand, thin clients will now move beyond being just-another-distraction on the side.

Breathe Easy - Go thin

Did you know that thin clients contribute to lesser carbon-dioxide emissons into the environment ?
http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_07_03_29_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=3677

Breathe easy…...go thin.

Gung Ho VIA

Noises from the market….. this time its VIA, who is gung-ho on the thin client market in India exploding.
http://www.itvarnews.net/news/journal_comments.asp?JournalID=4288&PagePosition=1&sTitle=VIA%20focuses%20on%20Indian%20Thin-Client%20market

IT Nirvana = Virtualization

Heres an interesting case study of another happy customer who has ventured into virtualisation - with the help of hp.
http://www.datastorageconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B7E658C6C-FCEB-4DA3-B70D-70DCCA34C6B6%7D&Bucket=Current+Headlines&VNETCOOKIE=NO

More and more customers are now discovering the one unfailing path to IT Nirvana…..Virtualisation.

The link includes a detailed case study - do go through.