Thin clients are cheap, quiet Linux endpoints, but most people deploy them wrong. Here’s how to use them the right way.

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 ...

A client machine that relies on the server to perform the data processing. Either a dedicated thin client terminal or a regular PC with thin client software is used to send keyboard and mouse input to ...

In many server applications, the most critical performance factors are drive and LAN I/O because in many situations the server quite simply serves files and this usually has minimal CPU overhead. A ...

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 ...

For Charles Hagstrand, software upgrades were nothing less than excruciating. As CIO at CapitalCare Medical Group, , a physician-owned, primary-care medical practice in upstate New York, he would ...

It’s not environmentally friendly, but most of us run a small home server 24 hours a day. A small server is a useful tool to have that unfortunately wastes a lot of energy. [kekszumquadrat]’s thin ...

The key is to remember the old adage about the right tool for the right job.

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 ...

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.

During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting one of those newfangled ...

This is classic usage of client-server solution, not thin client. Client-server solution (compared to SW running on a single host, that's usually a PC) are used in the following situations.