High Availability Load Balancing- Break Free from Overloaded Resources – 2X.com Source: www.newswiretoday.com 2X Software, a global leader in virtual application and mobile device management solutions, today announced it has entered into a partnership with IGEL Technology, producer of the world’s most advanced thin clients, to simplify access to remote virtual resources. The 2X RDP Client will be… Read More »
Family Dollar Stores Inc. is putting its head in a cloud in order to clear its operations. As part of a three-year agreement, Family Dollar has licensed Cloud360, Cognizant’s proprietary, enterprise-class cloud management platform developed on Amazon Web Services for its portal applications. Source: www.chainstoreage.com This is helping the retailer improve operational performance and cost competitiveness. Cloud360 provides… Read More »
Question and answer from VMware community on configuring kiosk mode and thin client. View Kiosk Mode with Zero Client – Auto login myvdi (1 posts since Jul 7, 2014) Jul 7, 2014 2:20 PM We are looki… Source: kioskindustry.org Writeup and whitepaper on configuring kiosk mode under VMware for thin client and zero client
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) February 05, 2015 — Designed to satisfy the most steadfast power users, the new 10ZiG 5800q Series features Intel Celeron quad core processors which markedly expands application capabilities. Source: www.prweb.com the 10ZiG 5800q Series comes equipped with an industry leading seven USB ports with dual DVI monitor ports. CPU – Intel Celeron J1900 quad core… Read More »
PRESS RELEASE Manchester, UK – For organisations looking to switch to a virtualised, cloud-computing environment, VXL’s new CloudDesktop™ PC repurposing software delivers a more viable solution to that of a legacy PC infrastructure. Having to continually invest in and provide support for an older business PC network can often become unsustainable for organisations. Combined with the existing investment… Read More »
Today the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that the Raspberry Pi 2, the new version of their credit card sized computer, is on sale for $35. The new devices are backward compatible with the previous generation but more power Source: seekingalpha.com According to Gartner, the number of connected “things” will rise to 25 billion in 2020. The tiny Raspberry… Read More »
Teradici®, today announced a distribution partnership with Getech Ltd. for sales of the company’s PCoIP Hardware Accelerator (APEX 2800) pro Source: www.businesswire.com “Pixels only” issues news release today
From PC to software-defined workspace Source: www.techradar.com What is interesting is that increasingly enterprise client devices are thin clients (thin client devices or PCs used as thin clients) so the move away from the PC device-centric view of desktop computing is definitely a mainstream movement. Microsoft’s decision later on last year to offer new user-based Windows licensing models,… Read More »
Azure, one of the strongest cards in Microsoft’s hand, was absent from the Windows 10 preview event Source: www.infoworld.com
Here’s a deal that has “corporate synergies” written all over it. VMware and Google are working together to make four Google cloud services available to corporate customers of VMware’s vCloud Air hybrid cloud. Source: gigaom.com
Global SaaS software revenues are forecasted to reach $106B in 2016, increasing 21% over projected 2015 spending levels. Source: www.forbes.com
Tech that attaches to our bodies doesn’t have to do it all. It just has to do one thing well. Source: www.wired.com
Valuing your time means knowing when to let go. Source: hbr.org
Bremen, Germany 28th January 2015 – Erhard Behnke has been appointed as a Managing Director of IGEL Technology GmbH. In his new role, he will strengthen the management team headed by Heiko Gloge Source: www.realwire.com
Watch this short video to get an introduction to the benefits of moving applications and workloads to VMware vCloud Air, a cloud service platform built on th… Source: www.youtube.com New videos from VMware
10ZiG Thin & Zero Clients are uniquely suited for the Hosted Desktop / Cloud Computing environment. Source: info.10zig.com Infographic detailing pain of conventional “old” desktop method versus modern server based applications. You may never get fired for buying IBM (or Microsoft) but you do get hired for being able to save us a lot of money.
The leading independent resource for enterprise IT virtualization tips, how-to, news and more. Source: virtualizationreview.com “Free” buyers guide which looks to be a selldoc. Very little mention of market manufacturers like HP or IGEL for example. In VM space the usual VMware/Citrix/Microsoft lineup. Somebody tell me to rein in my skepticism.
ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, unveils its newest visual display technology solutions at CES 2015 in Las Vegas, at the Encore Hotel, January 6-9, 2015. Source: www.heraldonline.com The SC-T47 Quad Thin Client provides an economical and feature-rich solution for driving multiple displays in a virtual desktop environment, supporting up to four Full HD 1080p displays.… Read More »
HP’s new mini-PCs may look almost identical, but they’re very different beasts beneath the surface. While the Stream Mini Desktop focuses on cloud storage and a low price point, the Pavilion Mini … Source: www.gizmag.com $180 for the Celeron Chromebook competitor. The more robust Pentium $320 and the i3 is $450 I think.
Nvidia has announced its next-generation mobile chip in the form of the Tegra X1. The new chip offers one teraflop of processing power, and is built on the company’s Maxwell GPU architecture. Source: www.gizmag.com Another jump up the performance ladder for Nvidia. Remains to be seen they can unseat Qualcomm and Intel
The TimeWalker Urban Speed e-Strap series by Montblanc bills itself as the first luxury brand to combine wearable technology with fine watchmaking by taking the functions of a smartwatch and mov… Source: www.gizmag.com Making the strap computational is interesting option. The wearable as supplemental option to conventionally worn.
Samsung has revealed its first ever portable SSD at CES 2015, the SSD T1. Likened by the firm to the size of a business card, it weighs in at just 30 g (1 oz), and boasts transfer speeds of up to … Source: www.gizmag.com Thinclient – size of business card portable SSD with 1TB showing at CES 2015
The D5500 is Nikon’s first DSLR to feature touchscreen operation. The entry-level model also boasts a 24.2-megapixel CMOS sensor and the firm’s Expeed 4 image processing engine. Nikon has also ann… Source: www.gizmag.com Lightclient: 3.2 inch touchscreen. Pinch and zoom just got a lot easier!
The original MacBook Air was ahead of its time, and spurred a storm of copycats on the Windows side of the aisle. But in the last couple of years Ultrabooks haven’t been changing much – at least f… Source: www.gizmag.com
The two products that drew the most attention at a preview of CES were clunky wearable devices that purport to meet needs that very few people have Source: www.businessweek.com
Source: www.raspberrypi.org Tech corner – example of using Raspberry Pi with touch screen.
mpicpp sends word that Microsoft may be working on a new browser. “There’s been talk for a while that Microsoft was going to make some big changes to Internet Explorer in the Windows 10 time frame, making IE ‘Spartan’ look and feel more like Chrome and Firefox. It turns out that what’s actually happ… Source: tech.slashdot.org As Neowin’s… Read More »
Interesting article on Verizon from IP Watchdog as Verizon joins their list “Companies We Watch”. Verizon has been very active in the patent and self-service area. Their patent for tele-diagnosis… Source: kioskindustry.org
HP has announced a new model in its competitive Chromebook 14 line. Bearing the same moniker as the existing machine, the new notebook offers a higher resolution display over its sibling, as well … Source: www.gizmag.com the resolution been upped to 1,920 x 1,080 (giving it 157 pixels per inch). also a touchscreen. Nvidia Tegra K1 processor
Oracle’s stock is up about 8%, higher than it has been in years and nearing its all-time high. Source: www.businessinsider.com The cloud….
