Battle for the Desktop revealed in latest Housing Association Research Thin and zero client technology stronger than ever but battling to win new converts Reading, UK. November 25th, 2014. The battle between PCs and thin clients on the desktops of UK Housing Associations is hotting up, according to the latest research published today. Thin and zero clients are… Read More »
Praim Ino SoC is the only ARM–based System-on-Chip Thin Client with native dual VDI support on the market. With this product, it is possible to create a dual monitor 1920×1200 full HD workstation offering extremely efficient and reliable performances. Source: www.channelemea.com Trento, Italy: Praim, a global manufacturer of Thin & Zero client solutions, announces the new version of… Read More »
Reading, UK. November 19th, 2014: IGEL Technology is extending its support for the Crisis at Christmas initiative to help London’s homeless over the festive period. This year 300 IGEL thin clients will be deployed at 10 schools and colleges used as Crisis Christmas Centres over the holiday. During the operation 8,000 Crisis charity volunteers across the country will… Read More »
Andy Jassy touts larger customer cloud deployments at the AWS user conference Source: www.pcworld.com With the CIA as marquee client Amazon struts its stuff in Vegas. The new database Aurora takes on Oracle, MS, and IBM (where is Google?).
Teradici®, the technology leader for creating virtual workspaces, today announced general availability of PCoIP® Zero Clients for Amazon WorkSpaces. Source: thinclient.org re:Invent 2014 with AWS going on at Venetian this week. Announcement from Teradici
PCoIP Zero Clients Teradici AWS Company Showcases PCoIP Zero Clients Running Amazon WorkSpaces at re:Invent 2014 BURNABY, British Columbia – November 10, 2014 – Teradici®, the technology leader for creating virtual workspaces, today announced general availability of PCoIP® Zero Clients forAmazon WorkSpaces. Almost 50 zero clients from 27 of the world’s leading manufacturers are now available in a variety… Read More »
The Verona, Wisconsin-based EHR giant will soon begin hosting the electronic health records systems of its hospital and medical group clients in the large new data center on its campus in Verona, W… Source: venturebeat.com Now big EMR & EHR providers hosting hospital data. Healthcare to the cloud.
Commercial installations using consumer tablets are fraught with potential problems. It’s best to use commercial tablets designed for business use. Source: www.applieddevicetechnologies.com
Nice breakout by Gartner of the major myths when it comes to Cloud Computing to keep in mind. Article and presentation link Myth 1: Cloud Is Always About Money IaaS prices fall, but SaaS applications typically don’t follow the same cost-cutting trends. For example, you know Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure will deliver price… Read More »
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA–(Marketwired – Oct 28, 2014) – Shuttle Computer Group, Inc., one of the world’s leading designers of small form computers, today announced that its DS437VMWWD and DS81VMWWND VMware thin client computers have achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that after a detailed validation process DS437VMWWD 1.01… Source: www.marketwired.com Each Shuttle device is powered by… Read More »
Thin Client project want to create a very low price thin client over Raspberry Pi board! Microsoft RDC, Citrix ICA, VMWare View, OpenNX & SPICE Source: rpitc.blogspot.com
Zotac has been offering a line of tiny desktop computers for a few years, but the company’s new ZBOX PI320 pico is the smallest yet. It’s also one of the first to come not only with memory and storage, but also with an operating system pre-installed. It’s a fully functional PC that sells for about … Source: liliputing.com… Read More »
Breach is reported limited to roughly dozen stores in the Northeast, may only affects a couple thousand customers Source: www.dailytech.com A small but growing number of retailers have safeguarded customers by ditching Windows XPe and moving to enterprise Linux distributions. Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (LOW), the Home Depot’s chief rival, reportedly uses OpenSUSE for its PoS systems. Papa John’s Int’l,… Read More »
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) sold 15 million tablets in Q3 2014. However, the company’s mobile chip division posted another $1.04 billion in operating loss for Q3. While the management is promising significant reduction in contra reve Source: seekingalpha.com Chromebooks are rising star and now even MS has 10″ tablets for sale at Walmart running Win8, at the low low price… Read More »
Nuance today announced it has partnered with eClinicalWorks to embed Nuance cloud-based medical speech recognition technology into eClinicalTouch for the iPad and eClinicalMobile for iOS and Android, enabling clinicians working in outpatient… Source: hitconsultant.net Healthcare mobility trends are on the rise, and Nuance has seen an increased adoption of cloud-based medical speech solutions. With several thousand clinicians … Source: www.kioskcts.com… Read More »
Wherever there’s ARM, you’ll find an Intel alternative. Source: www.techradar.com At $125 (about £77, AU$142), it supports Windows 8.1, Android and Linux, making it a more compelling option for businesses who might be interested in using it as a thin client like the Dell Wyse Cloud Connect.
Microsoft adds CoreOS and Cloudera to its growing set of Azure services Source: www.pcworld.com Microsoft loves linux. Let’s say that one more time just to hear it…. No longer is Linux the cancer, that title is now assigned to Amazon and Google by Redmond. Better late than never.
Karma Go lets you take WiFi everywhere. Pay-as-you-go for data that never expires. No contracts or monthly fees. With nationwide coverage on LTE, stay connected to the internet with all of your devices, seamlessly. Source: yourkarma.com This is pretty cool. A teeny tiny puck about the length and width of a Post-It Note and thinner than an iPhone… Read More »
Carry around your cloud storage Source: www.cnx-software.com If you like the convenience of cloud storage, but are wary of privacy implications, and/or are not satisfied by the file download/upload transfer rate, a new device called The Egg might be what you are looking for. It’s a tiny Wi-Fi enabled cloud storage server, powered by an Intel Atom processor… Read More »
Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with the potential for significant impact on the organization in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to the business, end users or IT, the need for a major investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. The top trends for… Read More »
Following Software and Desktop as a Service (SaaS / DaaS), another aaS trend is now on the IT horizon. With its highly remote administrable thin and zero clients, IGEL is in pole position as a technological partner for Client as a Service. For enterprises, ClaaS turns the traditional office computer from a hardware investment into a highly scalable… Read More »
This week at VMworld 2014 Europe Devon IT is showing the expanded Lenovo thin client portfolio – including the ThinkCentre M32 and M73 thin clients– Source: www.digitaljournal.com Lenovo’s ThinkCentre thin clients offer customers a choice of a flexible Linux-based thin client operating system, LeTOS or Windows Embedded Standard 7. The thin client also features Lenovo Terminal Manager (LTM) software that is effective, secure and easy… Read More »
The purposes of this paper are twofold: 1) to explain the main reasons why most healthcare organizations are not yet migrating their clinical data to the cloud; and 2) to describe how cloud vendors are addressing providers’ concerns. In addition, the paper discusses the key benefits of partnering with a cloud services provider, and explores different types of… Read More »
The ThinkCentre Tiny-in-One modular display will be available during October with a starting price of approximately $279, the ThinkCentre M73 Tiny thin client will be available in November, starting at roughly $299, and the ThinkCentre M53 Tiny thin client will be available for purchase in December, starting at approximately $249. Source: www.zdnet.com In addition, Lenovo has teamed up… Read More »
The next big thing in cloud computing doesn’t work with Microsoft’s Windows operating system. But Microsoft wants to change that. As part of its ongoing effort to embrace the latest tech trends, Microsoft says it’s building a version of Windows that will offer something akin to Docker—a technology originally created for the Linux operating system… Source: www.wired.com Microsoft… Read More »
Google recently announced major updates through its Chromebooks for Work program. Will it be enough to entice more enterprises? Source: www.techrepublic.com With the latest updates, Google has focused on fulfilling requests from business customers. For example, a single sign-on capability has been added so that users can sign into their Chromebook with the same corporate login they use… Read More »
Research shows 87% of business applications are web-based yet only 2% of firms use web technology for document scanning October 8, 2014 — Research shows 87% of business applications are web-based yet only 2% of firms use web technology for document scanning [1]. To address this, Kodak Alaris announced today a third model in its ScanMate series – the… Read More »
Citrix blog compares XenDesktop and Horizon View. XenDesktop comes out on top. Source: blogs.citrix.com This blog post takes a close look at what people see when they log into Citrix Receiver on a Chromebook or through HTML 5 to access the newest version of XenApp and XenDesktop compared to what VMware Horizon View users see when they log… Read More »
The V1206-P is 10ZiG’s next-generation TERA2 PCoIP Zero Client. This device supports the efficiency and security of centralized computing and offers an uncompromised desktop experience. The V1206-P latest chip set (TERA2 PCoIP Portal Processor) delivers a powerful, secure and easy to manage PCoIP Zero Client. Source: www.10zig.com The Zero Client eliminates the need for running, managing, maintaining or… Read More »
Teradici® and CounterPath Corp. (NASDAQ:CPAH) (TSX:CCV), today introduced the industry’s first scalable voice unified communications (UC) solution for PCoIP® Zero Clients in VMware® desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments Source: www.stockhouse.com Voice communications increasing — Built for the cloud, PCoIP Zero Client end points displace traditional PCs at a fraction of the cost. In contrast to… Read More »
