Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has been innovating in recent years, and now the latest addition to Dell’s thin client series boasts improved performance that makes it comparable to the company’s ...

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 ...

In Pasco County, Fla., thin clients have been a fixture in the user environment for a decade. IT initially bought into the thin-client computing model as it addressed security and management ...

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 ...

David Berlind's article, "And they said 'WebOffice' couldn't be done," paints a wonderful "blue sky" picture of the "not-too-distant" future. But still ... I am skeptical. The "thin client model" of ...

Thin clients used to feel like a dead end for my home lab. They looked like tiny desktops, and I kept expecting them to behave like bargain PCs with a few compromises. That mindset made every ...

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 ...

Last Wednesday, terminal vendor Wyse Technology unveiled its latest salvo in the “thin” vs. “fat” client wars, the Virtual Desktop Accelerator. While Wyse still makes terminals, it has also gotten ...

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