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: Cloudflare Eating AWS’s Serverless Lunch »
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: Cloud PC Rumors Microsoft Desktop As A Service Flying –… »
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: KMA Adds Product Listings for COVID19 »
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: Thin Client Review HP t640 »
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: Thin Client vs. PC Debate VDI endpoints »
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: Telehealth Telemedicine Projects RFPs – July 2020 »
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: Microsoft Citrix Partnership Grows Deeper »
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: Thin Client RFPs and Contracts July 9 »
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: ThinOS Update – Wyse ThinOS 9.0 & Wyse Management Suite… »
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: Thin Client RFPs 6/29 »
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: 10ZiG® Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop Partner »
#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: Citrix User Group Community Active »
From SlashGear Jun2020 It may not be Google’s OS but Chrome OS is truly shaping up to be the one OS to rule them all. It can already run software from Android and Linux in addition to its own native web-based Chrome apps and soon it will add what may be the most important set of apps for… Read More: Chrome OS Running Windows Apps »
HP Chromebook Full article on The Verge June 2020 – Fast charging and a 10th Gen Core i5 — HP makes the nicest Chromebooks (along with Asus and others). HP has announced its Chromebook x360 14c, which it says is its most premium Chrome OS product yet. It starts at $499 and will be available in June. The… Read More: HP Chromebook Thin Client News – HP x360 14c »
Temperature Verification Kiosks Temperature checks on employees and visitors is becoming commonplace for many businesses, hospitals, grocery stores, retailers and a host of others. Temperature sensing kiosks can help stem a crisis and optimize a return to business as employees and guests return to work and entertainment venues. Olea Temperature Sensing Kiosk from Craig Keefner on Vimeo. Reference page on Olea Kiosks… Read More: Temperature Verification Kiosk »
From GlobalNewsWire May 2020 Telemedicine Kiosks Come To Canada’s largest Western-based grocery and pharmacy retailer with over 170 stores May 04, 2020 07:30 ET | Source: CloudMD Software & Services Inc. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CloudMD Software & Services Inc. (CSE: DOC, OTCQB: DOCRF, Frankfurt: 6PH) (the “Company” or “CloudMD”), a telemedicine company revolutionizing the… Read More: Integrating Telemedicine Kiosks in Pharmacies »
From VentureBeat May 2020 HP today unveiled three new Chromebooks and other mobile solutions for enterprise workers in lockdown. The launch demonstrates how quickly big companies are moving to target mobile products at people working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Chromebooks, based on Google’s Chrome operatin… HP today unveiled three new Chromebooks and other mobile solutions for enterprise workers in… Read More: Chromebooks – HP new for enterprise workers at home »
No Touch Touchscreen Two fairly cool ideas from KioWare on let users use their mobile as the touchscreen proxy controller. And then for the workstation that presumably has been cleaned, users can see how long ago it was actually cleaned. Cool ideas. Ed Note: Using the kiosk as the “fulcrum” or proxy is not a new idea but… Read More: No Touch Touchscreen + User Monitored Station Maintenance »
Temperature Check Stations Lots of news around temperature check kiosks these days. These are typically small android devices equipped with camera and thermal sensor. The sensors come from variety of places (Germany for example has one). Example temperature check sensor is Heinmann ISO 9001-2015 certificate1Heimann Sensor Typically stand at a distance anywhere from 10 to 40 inches and… Read More: Temperature Check Android »
Wyse ThinOS and Management Suite 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 Learn More: https://bit.ly/2IP5hY3 95% of breaches originate at the endpoint1 With Wyse thin clients, data and applications are stored in a secure datacenter to ensure security and confidentiality. Our thin… Read More: Wyse ThinOS 9.0 & Wyse Management Suite 2.0 »
Thin Client – Convert Home PC or Laptop to Secure Corporate Endpoint VXL is helping organisations shift rapidly to homeworking, by offering a low-cost, 6-month licence for software which easily converts current desktops and laptops – including home PCs – into secure corporate endpoints. VXL Software offers 6-month licences to help organisations pivot easily to homeworking VXL is… Read More: VXL Software offers 6-month licences to help organisations pivot easily… »
Temperature Taking Kiosks Using a digital signage kiosk to take temperature has a lot of interest recently. It could be one strategy for re-opening business and assuring customers of safety. Bob Iger, CEO of Walt Disney Co., is pondering what such a future would look like. Perhaps, he suggests, it would look like testing the temperatures of all… Read More: Temperature Sensing Kiosks »
In April we launched the Smart City Design website which features RFPs, Contracts, News, Resources and more. It is the plan to provide more focus on markets such as Smart City, Digital Signage, POS aka Point-Of-Sale markets. These are important markets for Thin Clients which typically like to think the primary market is corporate America via Dell or… Read More: New Smart City RFP Site »
Read full article at Paciello Group March 2020 Healthcare kiosks are, now more than ever, a valuable tool for serving more patients without the need for up close staff interaction. They can be used for checking in patients and gathering symptom information for efficient triage purposes. They can also be used to measure patient blood pressure or heart… Read More: Self-Service Healthcare Accessibility »
Telemedicine Thin Clients Noted on CMS.Gov March 2020 The Trump Administration today announced expanded Medicare telehealth coverage that will enable beneficiaries to receive a wider range of healthcare services from their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility. Beginning on March 6, 2020, Medicare—administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—will temporarily pay clinicians… Read More: Telemedicine — Expanded Telehealth Benefits for Medicare Beneficiaries »
HP ZCentral Remote To Thinclient from HP As you know, in November, HP announced ZCentral, a solution powering the next-gen of computing with the world’s first single-sourced remote workstation solution. Starting today, customers can access the new generation of ZCentral Remote Boost here, and the proprietary ZCentral Connect software here. In tandem, HP is extending the ZCentral Remote Boost software… Read More: Available Today: HP ZCentral Remote Boost & Connect »
Visit Kiosk Industry for latest updates on AntiMicrobial Wipes, Sprays, film, UV-C, Copper, Coatings and more. Last Updated on March 15, 2020 at 11:48 am Disinfectant Wipes for Touch Screen By now we have all seen and read countless articles on how best to protect ourselves and others from bacterial infection. Before we begin we want to list some recommended resources… Read More: Touch Screen Safe AntiMicrobial Wipes »
From Kiosk Industry March 2020 From PRNewswire March 2020 WESTMINSTER, Colo., March 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Kiosk Manufacturer Association aka KMA announces our new ADA and Accessibility Chairpersons. Serving as co-chairpersons for our committee is Randy Amundson of Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc. and Mr. Peter Jarvis of Storm Interface. Randy is one of our founding chairpersons and is continuing in his support of KMA and ADA. Peter is a charter sponsor… Read More: KMA Announces ADA Accessibility Chairpersons »
CSUN Assistive Technology Conference From Kiosk Industry Come to the 2020 Exhibit Hall and experience first-hand the cutting-edge assistive technology offered in over 100 booths. For 34 years, thousands have attended the CSUN Conference’s free Exhibit Hall to have the opportunity to directly interact with the providers who develop the technology, products and services designed to promote inclusion… Read More: CSUN 2020 Assistive Technology »
From Kiosk Industry Feb 2020 Self-Service QSR Kiosks Gaining Popularity Editors Note: Short and concise report on QSR Kiosk market. Nothing on drive-thru kiosks. Quite a few players not included (maybe next time). Example would be reference to McDonalds Times Square Flagship project (see CNBC writeup we published back in May 2019). That is Pyramid Computer out of Germany making those.… Read More: Kiosk Research – 2020 Mercator Self-Service QSR Kiosk Market Report »
