Article on ZDnet Dec2020 Citrix DDOS Attacks — Excerpt By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | December 24, 2020 — 17:34 GMT (09:34 PST) | Topic: Security Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce and amplify junk web traffic against Citrix ADC networking equipment to launch DDoS attacks. While details about the attackers are still unknown, victims of these Citrix-based DDoS attacks have… Read More »
From Computerworld ChromeOS Explosion – Dec2020 A subtle-seeming Google purchase paves the way for a dramatic expansion of Chrome OS’s reach — and a dramatic reimagining of what a Chromebook even is. Neverware and the Chrome OS connection I first wrote about Neverware nearly five years ago, but the company’s actually been around even longer than that. Its primary… Read More »
Dell Thin Client From the Register Dec 2020 – Dell, which pitches its Wyse ThinOS as “the most secure thin client operating system,” plans to publish an advisory on Monday for two security vulnerabilities that are as bad as they could possibly be. CVE-2020-29491 and CVE-2020-29492 are both critical flaws, managing a perfect (although unwelcome) CVSS score… Read More »
PCI Compliance for self service kiosks announcement on PRNewswire KIosk Manufacturer Logo WESTMINSTER, Colo., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Kiosk Manufacturer Association (KMA), the leading unattended self-service kiosk association established in 1995, today announced the launch of new initiatives in the PCI Compliance space for unattended self-service kiosks. Those initiatives include providing content for the PCI Perspectives Blog, creating a… Read More »
Advantage Series – Patient Kiosks Patient Registration Kiosk Systems – Advantage Series A focus on health and safety Healthcare Kiosk Patient Check-In Frank Mayer Patient kiosks allow staff to focus on what matters – streamlining the check-in process and keeping employees healthy. Healthcare kiosks offer a high quality of care to patients and guests who walk through your… Read More »
Chromebook RFP Parkway School OBJECTIVE The district is currently accepting proposals from vendors for the following model: o Chromebook: Acer C-733T The district may also purchase smaller quantities of Chromebook devices between May 1, 2021, and May 1, 2022. The District requires delivery within 30 days of receipt for additional purchase orders to our warehouse… Read More »
2021 Predictions for ChromeBook For those of you who’ve been around for more than a year, you likely remember us making the same sort of grandiose statements last year around this time, excited by the proposition of new 10th-gen Intel-based Chromebooks and the slew of MediaTek MT8183-touting Chrome OS devices we were expecting. While some of those devices showed up… Read More »
Cloud Computing and the Modern Workforce From Techspective Nov 2020 — Excerpt: BY PHILLIP JOHNSON ON NOVEMBER 11, 2020CLOUD, CLOUD APPS, CLOUD DATA, HYBRID CLOUD, STRATEGY Organizations are enhancing safety and security, reducing costs and increasing operational flexibility by using cloud computing platforms. After two decades of advances, cloud computing has now established itself as a core business tool for many of the world’s largest… Read More »
VXL announce a new distribution agreement with leading French IT distributor, Feeder, to supply its full range of thin and zero clients, homeworking solutions and unified endpoint management software. VXL appoints Feeder as its new French thin client & software distributor Manchester, UK – VXL announce a new distribution agreement with leading French IT distributor, Feeder, to supply its… Read More »
From HotHardware Sep2020 — What Exactly Is A Dell Hybrid Thin Client (DHC)? At its core, Hybrid Client is a combination of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and hardware. It starts with the Dell systems like its OptiPlex 7070 Ultra platform or Wyse 5070 thin clients, running a highly-customized Ubuntu 18.04 Long Term Support (LTS)-based operating system. However, Dell representatives also told us… Read More »
New RFP for Chromebooks Yancey County Schools. Lenovo 300e Touchscreen Chromebook ● Display: 11” ● Memory: 4 GB ● Storage: 32GB Four Year Warranty ● No deductible ● Free shipping both ways when there is an incident ● Hardware fail ● Accidental Damage Protection (ADP) ● Theft/loss ● Spare parts on site, if desired ● 3-year battery warranty… Read More »
Thin Client Market Report From PRNewswire August 2020 — The $469M market is predicted by these people to reach $633 by 2027. Not a big fan of Research and Markets research market reports judging from some of the other reports they have done. A lot of internet scraping I think. I think it is worth noting that the… Read More »
VA VA Telehealth Requirements CARES Act July 2020 Introduction This Request for Information (RFI) is issued for the purpose of conducting market research. Accordingly, this RFI constitutes neither a Request for Proposal (RFP) nor a guarantee that one will be issued by the Government in the future.Ã? Furthermore, it does not commit the Government to contract for any services… Read More »
Teladoc Health Wednesday announced it would acquire highflying telehealth rival Livongo From Chicago Tribune — Telemedicine involves care delivered remotely, often with a live video connection through patient smartphones or tablets. Millions of patients were forced to try it for everything from routine care to checkups with specialists after COVID-19 shut down much of the economy earlier this… Read More »
From FierceHealthcare Hospitals Trump signs executive order to expand telehealth, boost rural health care by Heather Landi | Aug 3, 2020 5:43pm Excerpt President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday to support healthcare in rural areas by permanently expanding some telehealth services beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officials said they plan to issue a… Read More »
Introduction: The Cherokee Nation is the federally recognized government of the Cherokee people and thereby has sovereign status granted by treaty and law. Tribal sovereignty is the right to selfgovernance. The seat of tribal government is the W.W. Keeler Complex near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, capital of the Cherokee Nation. The jurisdictional area of the Cherokee Nation (hereinafter “Nation”) covers… Read More »
Example this month Wilson County Public Schools — Lenovo 300e Touchscreen Chromebook qty 1637 ● Display: 11” ● Memory: 4 GB ● Storage: 32GB Four Year Warranty 1637 ● No deductible ● Free shipping both ways when there is ● an incident Hardware fail ● Accidental Damage Protection (ADP) ● Theft/loss ● Spare parts on site, if desired… Read More »
The Chromebooks listed in the Wired article are on the spendy side. Not sure why “Budget” is included in title. Maybe that is more catchy and more political than “cheap”. The budget Chromebook here is the Dell for $400. You can go on the Dell site and get 11″ Education model for $249. HP starts even “less expensive”… Read More »
Cloudflare Serverless From Data Center Knowledge Jul 2020 Its CEO says the new serverless platform is cheaper and faster than Amazon’s, Microsoft’s, and Google’s. Yevgeniy Sverdlik | Jul 27, 2020 Excerpt: Matthew Prince says what the new cloud service engineers at his company Cloudflare have cooked up beats competing services by the three cloud giants – AWS, Azure, and Google… Read More »
News article on ZDNet this week got the rumor mill going on Microsoft finally launching a Windows Desktop As a Service via Azure. The writer found a job description on Microsoft website which details the role. Microsoft’s vision of Cloud PC is that it is the only M365 powered user compute experience delivered from azure and managed by Microsoft – at… Read More »
See BusinessWire for KMA release — the COVID19 situation has advanced to where the KMA has found it necessary and useful to have separate product listings for software and hardware solutions in the COVID space. This includes the ultimate thin clients which enable touchless operation of computer stations. The mobile becomes the remote control proxy. Excerpt: WESTMINSTER, Colo.–(BUSINESS… Read More »
From Storage Review Jul 2020 and Tom Fenton — In this article, we will give an in-depth overview of the t640 VDI client’s specifications, design and build quality, and a summary of the testing that we carried out on it. We will then lay out the key findings from those tests and provide our thoughts about the device… Read More »
From VirtualDesktop Jul2020 — IT has the responsibility to provide virtual desktop endpoints that maximize UX based on the use cases, so admins should learn the different sides of the thin client vs. PC debate. By Jo Harder End-user requirements for thin clients vs. PC endpoints Even the best ticket system will result in some delays for users, and… Read More »
Telehealth Telemedicine Projects The world of telemedicine and telehealth is expanding and much of the base infrastructure, on both sides of the aisle, is thin client computing. Especially given the HIPAA regulations the handling of patient data is extremely important. Generally most telemedicine telehealth client stations are “cloud clients”. Here are some from today for reference Program Name… Read More »
Microsoft Citrix Partnership July 2020 From the Verge July 2020 — Microsoft and Citrix have been working together closely for decades, but that partnership is going a step further today. Microsoft is partnering with Citrix to use the company’s Citrix Workspace portal as its “preferred digital workspace solution,” and Citrix is using Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud… Read More »
July Thin Client RFPs and Contracts we’ve seen and looked at: Here is overall status today for pre RFP. 57 opps for 27M From one service – Here is is another. This is Forecast Pre-RFP. There are 57 opps worth 27M Here is a look at Active Contracts: 458 found total spending 1B Average spending 7M If… Read More »
ThinOS Update – Wyse ThinOS Wyse ThinOS 9.0 is the most secure thin client operating system with Citrix Workspace app and with enhanced management capabilities from WMS 2.0 One tool does it all. Wyse Management Suite is a flexible cloud management solution that allows to centrally configure, monitor, manage and optimize Wyse thin clients, zero clients and software… Read More »
JPMC – RENEWAL NOTICE HP Thin Client Terminals and Accessories Type Bid Entity DoIT – Department of Innovation and Technology Expires Jul 14, 2020 Status Open Region Illinois Reference # 21-448DOIT-TELEC-B-16037 Issued Jun 28, 2020 More Details Description Bulletin Desc: RENEWAL NOTICE – THIS IS NOT A BID SOLICITATION JPMC – The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology desires… Read More »
ICYMI – ’10ZiG® Technology Established as Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop Integrated Partner Provider’ > Rean th announcement here > https://bit.ly/10ZiG-WVD #WVD #WindowsVirtualDesktop #Microsoft #Cloud #CloudComputing #10ZiG 10ZiG® Technology Established as Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop Integrated Partner Provider PHOENIX, ARIZONA – Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop, a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud, is now partnering with 10ZiG Technology Thin & Zero Clients.… Read More »
#UKCUG is alive and kicking!! As well as offering FREE #Citrix Thin & Zero Client demo devices, we’re also giving away a pair of Sennheiser Wireless Headphones! You can win them here – https://lnkd.in/dcdVmkh Since 1999, Thinclient.org has been reporting the thin client computing market as well as the ChromeBook, Zero Client, Android clients, Pi Raspberry Clients and Thick Client market. Generally… Read More »
