IBM tries server approach to PC business

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Look at it this way.

Not as a single terminal server in MS Speak, but a series of servers that can be split out according to usage.

PCs are a nice little toy, but they really shouldn't be in the business world.

Back in the day, when a mainframe when down, a user would work on a PC until the system was brought back up. Now that the mainframes are gone, the users wait on techs everytime the PC has a problem, even with remote administration. And then you have those who like to tinker around with BIOS or try and load something that doesn't agree with Windows and you have to start all over.

With a thin client setup, you can simply deploy the clients and setup the session as per user's needs. If a client dies, replace the client in a few minutes. If you aren't there, the client can access another thin client and still access and pick up right where they left off.

With storage over a SAN, the users don't have to worry about losing their data on their hard drive, beings how no matter how it is explained to them, they still can't manage to save to the network filesystems.

With the network being as critical as it is, a user is pretty much dead without it, so to give a user a personal computer is pretty much a pointless cause anyway.

I hated the idea ever since I was a little kid, but the reality is that from the administrative standpoint and from the company standpoint as well as the cost standpoint, a Thin Client setup is truly better if the highspeed network is well designed and in place.

I plan to roll one out myself here in less than a few months, not the IBM style, but similar.

Posted by: nucrash   Posted on: 10/19/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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