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Industry Experts Speak Out About Server Centric and Thin Client
“Security
issues have gotten absurd when it comes to desktop PCs,” says IDC analyst
Bob O’Donnell. “What thin client architecture does is force you into
really good IT practices. All you have to do is monitor the servers — you
never have to worry about the clients.”
— By
Dan Tynan in Infoworld Magazine
“Wells Fargo plans to convert
all of its retail banking group to thin clients. Eliminating branch-office
servers, desktop-related software, and system monitoring and remote control
software should cut the total cost of ownership by 75%.“
— By Robert Mitchell and a case study in
Computerworld Magazine
"I think
we’ve learned our lesson,” Hans-Juergen Neumaier, CIO of Sparkasse
Haslach-Zell, says. “We’re no longer able to handle PC
administration.”
— By
Dan Tynan in Infoworld Magazine
"In my view, thin client
was the only possible option for increasing the service levels while
reducing the costs in an organization of our size."
— John Saville, Head of IT Services at
Bristol University
of the West of England
"Thin
client appliances are more affordable, secure, manageable and reliable than
PCs."
—
A survey of 1,624 IT pros
conducted by QNB Intelligence
"Our
studies indicate that above all, client/server is a labor intensive activity.
We find that labor constitutes more than 70 percent of total cost of
ownership over five years."
— By Ken Dec, Gartner Group in Red Herring
Magazine
"1,624
IT pros found that thin client appliances are "more affordable, secure,
manageable and reliable" than PCs."
— QNB Intelligence/Quocirca in a
recent survey
"I
had grown tired of managing it," he says. "Support was a
nightmare". Switching to a thin client cut bandwidth usage by
two-thirds, eliminating the expense of future upgrades."
— Mike Haggerson, Director of IS /
Detroit Medical Center in NW Fusion Magazine
"To
drive down costs while making access more readily available, a growing
number of enterprises are now turning to browser-based managed
services."
— Lisa Phifer - Core Competence in an
article from Thin Planet
"Companies
with thin-client systems can save money by avoiding PC upgrades, but that's
just part of potential savings, says Dan Kusnetsky, an analyst at IDC in
Framingham, Mass. In a typical computing implementation, "staffing is
50% to 75% of the three-year cost," he says. Such savings can more
than off-set increased costs of servers and software, Kusnetsky says."
— Dan Husnetsky, Analyst IDS. Computerworld
Magazine
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