Definitions: Client System Configuration
Created on: Jan 27, 2009 10:47 AM by Loraine Lawson - Last Modified: Mar 30, 2009 12:27 PM by Loraine Lawson
Definition
The only way organizations can be assured that their network infrastructure is configured to deliver the required volume and quality of traffic in and out of their data centers is by fitting all of the elements in a consolidated and automated management system.
In addition, there are growing requirements stemming from compliance standards and green thinking.
Business Applications
Thin clients are cheaper, easier to manage and use less energy than the standard business desktop. But, now, what once was a drawback, an inability to process large multimedia files, may no longer be a problem with beefed-up processing and newly redesigned software from the major vendors. Some experts suggest that growth is coming in this industry because of these “green and cost-effective alternatives to expensive and difficult to manage PCs.”
Other opportunities include HP’s Virtual Client Essentials and the Wyse Thin Client OS version 6.3 that includes a new collaborative processing architecture that can detect heavy data applications on the server, such as video and graphics processing, and shift that over to the client.
Technical Details
Big data centers, such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, now have phenomenal purchasing power and they buy energy-efficient configurations. Server OEMs such as IBM, Dell and HP, in turn, take those and sell them to other people. The interesting part is, all server OEMs have data-center [best practices] areas now. They work with companies and ask, "what is the most efficient area for your data center?" That is a way to try to win sales.
You need to have centralized purchasing of the servers that goes across all the different departments. The inefficiencies come from all the different departments buying what they want as opposed to one department being a resource for others and saying, "here is the energy-efficient version." (See Unleashing the Friendly Green-Eyed Monster in Data Centers.)
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