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5 Cheers for Secure Thin Clients |
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Written by Stew
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
 I came across this article the other day (while munching a turkey sandwich), touting the benefits of thin client computing or connected computing as we here a VIA prefer to say. In this article Mr Strassman outlines 5 key reasons why connected clients are the only rational choice for the business sector. These 5 reasons are centered around the issue of security. In a business where most users are not power users and therefore do not need a fat client to get their job done( i.e. use no heavy video or image processing software), Mr Strassman can see no better option than that of a thinner, client-server based infrastructure - for security reasons of course. Not for money, or the environment, or because they're quieter and take up less space. Purely from the perspective of security.
As a a former technology executive at General Foods, Kraft, Xerox, the Department of Defense and NASA, I bet he knows a thing or two about security. So listen up.
Here it is again, in case you missed it.
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Sunday, 30 December 2007
Sun's internal computing desktop structure is almost entirely thin-client based, using Sun Microsystems' SunRay clients, plugged into an LCD and connecting to a bank of centralized servers. They've been doing this for years and all of the systems run Sun's Java Desktop System (linux with GNOME interface).
It serves all the user's needs, unless they're a software engineer (developer, support engineer, etc) in which case they obviously have separate development systems on their desk.
Cuts down on heating, cooling, power and maintenance costs. Except for extreme circumstances, any problem with your system can be addressed at the centralized server instead of dispatching an IT person to one of any of the 60,000+ offices in campuses around the planet.