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HP Unveils New Thin Client Hardware And Solutions
November 22, 2009
While many customers are considering when and how to upgrade their PCs to the latest Windows 7 operating system, HP is proposing an alternative: forget about the PCs and migrate to low-cost, flexible thin clients. A thin-client machine relies on the server to perform the data processing. A dedicated thin client terminal is used to send keyboard and mouse input to the server and receive screen output in return. The thin client does not process any data. The benefits are improved maintenance and security due to central administration of the hardware and software in the datacenter. The architecture harks back to the early days of centralized mainframes.
HP unveiled two new Atom processor-based thin clients. The two models include the t5740, which includes a Windows embedded operating system, and the t5745, which includes HP's ThinPro Linux operating system. The two new thin clients offer performance similar to that of traditional desktops, thanks to their ability to work with high-performance protocols such as RDP, RGS, Citrix, HDX and VMware PCoIP (PC over IP). Those protocols allow the heavy lifting of the applications to be done inside the data center, which helps ensure high performance on the customer side. The demand on the processor is much lower with the thin clients.
HP also introduced three new thin client solutions aimed at education markets. The first is the MultiSeat Solution, which ties an HP server with up to 10 t100 thin clients into a complete plug-and-play solution. The second is the HP TeachNow Solution, which ties a low-cost HP server with multiple t5740 thin clients and which allows teachers to quickly deploy Windows 7 desktop images related to a particular subject to the thin clients and switch those images for a different class at the touch of a button.
The biggest change is the migration to Windows 7, which is giving businesses a chance to re-evaluate their PC infrastructures. HP sees this as an opportunity for their customers to move to thin client computing, which lowers the cost of computing, cuts energy use, and increases productivity when compared to traditional PCs.
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