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 ...

Few IT duties are as universal as the care and feeding of the corporate desktop. While other aspects of IT get easier thanks to new technologies like server virtualization, there’s still no magic pill ...

Paul Wohlleben, a former federal CIO, consults in the federal sector. E-mail him at [email protected], or visit his blog at www.businessofinfotech.blogspot.com. I wrote in 2009 that federal ...

One of the great predictions of desktop computing from the mid 1990s was that we would all move to so-called thin clients, stripped-out desktop computers containing only processor, display driver, and ...

Frankly, they're just plain easy for even a single IT person to manage; software gets installed in one place, patches are applied to one computer, anti-malware is managed at a single point, etc. So ...

My mom is neither an educator, nor a technologist, but she has taken to reading my blogs anyway (group, "Ahhhh", please). She actually runs a gourmet tea and spice company based just a few miles from ...

I've been following the evolution of client-side computing off and on for over 20 years. Remember ASCII terminals? Green screens? Beehives? X terminals? If you do, they're most likely dimming memories ...

In our last newsletter we suggested that the industry is entering a new era of mainframe computing. In that newsletter we began the process of looking at the end user devices of the original mainframe ...

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.

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 ...