Server Based Computing

Modern datacentres are looking beyond the basic requirement to provide end users with quick and reliable access to their applications. They need to consider power consumption, heat output and noise pollution; the increased need for secure computing; the need to reduce IT management costs; the push for quicker provisioning and greater reliability; and the need to cater for increasing numbers of home and mobile workers.

Thin clients are the perfect desktop device for the 21st century. They possess no moving parts, a simplified circuit board and software, high reliability, very low power consumption (1W is quite possible) and offer ease of implementation and management. All this means that they are looking to overtake standard PCs as the desktop of choice in many organisations.

Gone are the days when thin clients could only be used with Microsoft Terminal Services. Terminal Services itself has improved in leaps and bounds and many users are more than happy to run their thin clients in that environment alone. But there are now alternatives, bringing a rich choice of implementations to the IT Manager. The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is being specified by an increasing number of organisations and a thin client is an ideal front end for it.

Avnet is ready to talk to you about thin client solutions for your customers.