IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds

04.04.2012

We do one of two flavors. We use either a thin client application or, in a lot of cases, we've deployed a hardware thin client. They've made some advances in recent years to support dual monitors. A few years back I tried deploying those and a lot of people didn't like them because they were limited, but the newer versions are pretty slick.

Who is the supplier?

We use . It works pretty well.

Did you try to repurpose any existing laptops as thin clients?

We have actually, we repurposed a few. We used the Wyse virtual desktop accelerator modules to help us in high latency situations and it works pretty well. If the PC has still got good life left on it, we'll use it, and then once we're done with that, one of our information security initiatives is to go more with the Wyse models because they don't have a hard disk.