It took almost a decade, but the era of the so-called "thin-client computer" ballyhooed by Oracle Corp. chairman Larry Ellison back in 1996 is finally coming to pass. The concept was that a ...

Thin clients used to feel like a dead end for my home lab. They looked like tiny desktops, and I kept expecting them to ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Thin clients? Really? Athough these ...

Pierre Vedel is the vice president of IT for Energy Recovery in San Leandro, Calif. Before deploying thin clients, my team and I did our homework. We read the literature, looked at case studies and ...

Thin clients seem to be a perennial runner-up to full-featured desktops, but we think the time is right to stop thinking "what if?" and to get rid of those clunky desktop PCs. Thin clients take the ...

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 ...

One of the great predictions of desktop computing from the mid 1990s was that we would all move to so-called thin clients, stripped-out desktop computers containing only processor, display driver, and ...

Technology moves at a lightning-fast pace. A brand new desktop computer has an average lifespan of two to five years, after which both its hardware and its software have become obsolete. For ...

At the end of last year we invested in quite a few thin clients (and the servers to run them) for 3 different computer labs. While the rollout hasn't been without its struggles, the experience has ...

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 ...

Do you really want to manage a fleet of expensive PCs that require ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting? A growing number of businesses are saying no. Instead, they’re exploring an alternative to ...

NCR has developed smart thin-client cash machines to replace ageing Windows XP-based ATMs and claims the new machines will be 40% cheaper to run. The installed base of cash machines runs embedded ...