“Instant-on” technology has been available from laptop vendors for a number of years now, bypassing the full Windows startup sequence and offering rapid (typically less than 10 seconds) access to a Linux environment that provides web and e-mail services etc. so that a user can quickly access key pieces of information and then shutdown their laptop again so conserving battery life.
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Thin-Clients for Fat Wallets
Every couple of years I find myself revisiting the age old question, why are thin-clients so expensive? I hadn’t given it much thought for a while, but Dell’s latest post-Black Friday sales flyer arrived in my mail box this evening, awaking the question once again.
Dell is now selling a Home Theater PC (the Inspiron Zino HD) for just $230. For that you get an AMD Athlon 2650e clocked at 1.6GHz , 2GB of Dual Channel RAM, a 250GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive, an 8x DVD+/-RW Drive, an Integrated ATI
Radeon HD3200 graphics adaptor and a copy of Vista Home Basic (although perhaps
the less said about Vista the better).
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The BrightTalk Next Generation Desktop Summit
VDI implementation makes a lot of sense for many organizations wanting to provide a secure and standard desktop for employees. But compared to other virtualization technologies, few organizations are deploying it. Why? Join this panel as they discuss this question, what VDI is lacking and what needs to happen in order for businesses to adopt it.
The Big BYOD Debate
Smartphones and tablets remain ever-prevalent, and the trend of employees using these devices for business purposes, whether sanctioned or unsanctioned, is on the rise. So Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, and the way enterprise IT departments should handle them, is a topic that generates a lot of discussion and controversy. 
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