subject: Are You Ready For The Next Generation Of Office Computers? [print this page] As you wander through all of the various offices in your company headquarters, you notice how many of them are older units and what an incredible mix of brands and styles your employees are trying to use. As a person who has always taken great pains to keep each office running as efficiently and as effectively as possible, there is something very wrong with this picture. If your offices have reached this point, it may be time for you to invest in the latest thin clients, which are the next generation in office computers.
There was a time when providing everyone on your staff with their own individual PC was the only option you had, along with all of the associated expenses and complications. For example, everyone on your staff must have access to some form of word processing software; the most commonly used is Microsoft Office Professional. Since everyone is going to use this software, it means buying a separate license for each computer. Even with multi license discounts, the cost of this software alone can run into several thousands of dollars.
Now look at your records to see how many different duplicate software suites you have had to buy in the past year, the past two years, five years and so on. The numbers can be staggering and are definitely not a sign of a company that is running cost effectively. When you provide each member of your staff, whether we are talking office personnel or the guys in the mail room or shipping, with a thin client and Citrix XenDesktop software, you can reduce the number of copies of the commonly used software down to one or maybe two, depending on the number of internal servers you have installed.
This is the key to the entire system, by replacing all of the different standalone PCs with the latest thin clients and having one or two central servers installed, you are creating a complete internal network. The Citrix XenDesktop software creates a virtual desktop that will let each of your employees use the software they need that is installed on your servers. By arranging your network in this manner, you can also set security protocols that will limit access not only to your databases on a need to know basis, but to the different types of software you have.
Keep in mind also that other than an operating system and the virtual desktop software you have installed on your thin clients, the vast majority of the rest of your company uses will be installed on your servers. This is one of the biggest reasons why a thin client is so much cheaper to buy than a standalone computer, as it does not need to have a huge hard drive or mass amounts of RAM. All of the hard work is done on your servers. The amount of money you can save buying client computers instead of standalone models alone is going to help put a lot of money back into your budget.
The best part is that most of your employees are actually going to see a boost in performance when they sit down at their desks to go to work. Couple this with the savings you are going to realize on software and the picture just keeps getting better. But this is only a part of the savings you are going to realize by the time your new system is completely installed. One thing you may not realize is just how much power each of these old style computers consumes.
If you could peel off the side cover to each of their cases, you would see a vast array of power supplies ranging anywhere from 250W to 1000W or more depending on the brand of the computer and how powerful it is. Now when you stop to consider how many hours each day those computers are running, imagine what they are doing to your power bills. Our thin clients are Energy Star rated as being very energy efficient and yet another way updating your entire office computer network is going to save your company money and make it more efficient.
If this sounds like the change your company needs to make you will find that the equipment available today from 10 Zig has been designed to take the complexity out of creating your virtual desktop network. Our ultra-thin clients are built to make implementation a relatively simple process and will work with a variety of hardware options, including wireless tablets, the newest all in one computers and small form factor models.
