by Joe Gleinser
28. June 2010 17:32
After more than a decade of experience with Citrix and Terminal Server, I've learned a thing or two about thin client computing. And, for the most part, I despise it. For every success story there are two or three failures. These failures are usually not catastrophic but frustrating, annoying, and troublesome. Not the computing experience I aim to provide to my users.
What if we could combine all the functionality of a desktop with the "thin-ness" of a thin client? As we continue to migrate large numbers of users to the Cloud, we are doing just that. The use of Cloud based solutions turns existing desktops and notebooks into thin clients. I no longer care about the applications, data or OS installed on these boxes. My users can switch devices quickly and easily. Little time is wasted troubleshooting individual devices.
Cloud services such as Egnyte, SoftLayer, and Google Apps have finally delivered on a promise that IT made a long time ago.