In the 1970s and 1980s, the ubiquitous model of corporate and academic computing was that of many users logging in remotely to a single server to use a sliver of its precious processing time. With the ...

In Pasco County, Fla., thin clients have been a fixture in the user environment for a decade. IT initially bought into the thin-client computing model as it addressed security and management ...

Thin clients seem to be a perennial runner-up to full-featured desktops, but we think the time is right to stop thinking "what if?" and to get rid of those clunky desktop PCs. Thin clients take the ...

Major hardware vendors like Dell, HP, and Lenovo have commoditized thin-client hardware and under-invested in their proprietary operating systems, opening the market to third-party software platforms.

Thin client vendors have shown a greater presence at this week’s LinuxWorld conference than in the past, with Wyse Technology, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems all offering new products. The moves ...

Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processors than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics capabilities, so they could be alternatives to ...

In the first instalment of a two-part review on thin clients, we look at thin-client terminals. Jenny Craig, eat your heart out. We can let you in on a secret that shows how to shed clock cycles and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. The world of VDI (Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure) has been ...

Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualization offerings, Dell said Monday. Instead of running the desktop OS ...

In its infancy, Sun’s Sun Ray was a network-clobbering, sometimes stuttering example of what thin-client computing on Unix-like systems could be. Now it’s much more stable and much, much thinner. The ...

HP's Elite t660 offers solid performance, plenty of connectivity, and an array of accessories, blurring the lines between a traditional thin client and small form factor edge PC. Impressive Thin ...