Top tech trends for 2010 - the era of Thin Client is coming
2010-01-19
Deloitte predicts that in 2010 thin client will be taken far more seriously than in previous years.
Over the next five years, thin client should reach 10 per cent of organisations’ computers, with the majority of medium to large businesses considering a shift to virtual desktop infrastructure.
Thin client can help to deliver direct savings by minimising and making IT support and maintenance more efficient, as well as reducing hardware costs and licensing fees. There are other less tangible benefits to virtual desktop infrastructure including; mobility, increased productivity, lower real estate costs, lower power consumption and better security. Those charged with deploying thin client may need to convince workers who begrudge the lack of a local hard disk drive that pure forms of thin client entails. However, abetted by a backdrop of recession or slow recovery, employers may consider it a good opportunity to reshape working conditions.
[news resource: Deloitte, Publish date:Tuesday, January 19, 2010]
