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Pine Cove Consulting has the answer to your thin client questions
Do you have questions about thin clients? Pine Cove Consulting is here to answer them with our new thin client solution from Neoware and IBM.
Pine Cove Consulting's thin client solutions provide lower ownership costs and offer improved manageability for the your school or business. Thin clients are ideal for organizations looking to improve application deployment, decrease hardware maintenance, simplify their client architecture, and reduce the strains on their IT staff.
Thin clients work best for:
- Firms that require a highly reliable network of computers connected to a centralized server running mission critical applications can greatly benefit from thin clients due to their highly reliable nature. Hospitals, insurance agencies, educational institutions, and banks are typical businesses that fall into this category.
- Institutions with standard computing departments, like sales or service call centers, data entry departments, computer labs, or technical support desks, can realize substantial cost savings from thin clients. The computing power and flexibility of a PC is often unnecessary and potentially undesirable as end-users can reconfigure, load local applications or otherwise tamper with the PC's settings.
- Educational institutions represent the growing IT trend that requires more computing resources and an ever-shrinking budget. Universities and K-12 schools with under resourced IT departments must keep hundreds or thousands of computing devices up and running with the latest software despite multiple users per machine. Thin clients help them meet the challenge in two ways. Thin clients, and their solid state construction (they have no moving parts or fans), are designed to withstand the harsh environments of school computer labs. Moreover, because all applications and storage is at the server (they have no hard-drives, floppy disks, or CD-ROMs), the latest version is always available to everyone.
- Fortune 1000 companies with aggressive cost cutting agendas can reach their goal with the help of Pine Cove Consulting and thin clients. IT managers are challenged daily to do more with less. Thin Clients enable most firms to realize tremendous cost savings by reducing the amount of support staff per 100 client computers from 4 to 1. Thin clients enable network administrators to deploy new systems in rapid fashion because a thin client can be set up and functional in under 15 minutes. Finally, since thin clients are managed 100% remotely, network administrators can update software on the server instead of deploying it over and over again at the client side.
- Organizations that are limited to green screen or "dumb" terminals and would like to upgrade to a more robust GUI platform that can handle email programs like Outlook 2003 and common business applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), can meet this need with the Pine Cove Consulting and thin clients.
Thin clients do not work for:
- Power users that manage or create content, as well as Engineers, graphic artists, multi-media developers, web designers, and marketing and sales professionals have requirements for powerful local processing, local storage, and the ability to read/write from CD or DVD-ROMs. These knowledge workers require powerful desktop PCs, workstations, and notebook computers from IBM and Pine Cove Consulting.
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