Manish Sharma, vice-president of NComputing in Asia-Pacific, announced that the company is targeting projects in Philippine government, schools, rural areas, including private businesses such as call centers, business process outsourcing (BPO), and small-and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).

"We are targeting these sectors and they are strong areas for low-cost virtual desktop computing in the Philippines," Sharma told Computerworld Philippines, as he introduced the company's two latest products lines -- the NComputing L-series and NComputing X-series -- two networking devices that promise to provide more computer access at lower costs.

Sharma explained the NComputing solution is merely about maximizing the advanced capacities of today's PCs so it can accommodate more users.

"Our Ncomputing solution is based on a simple fact that today's PCs are so powerful that the vast majority of applications only use a small fraction of the computer's capacity," he noted. "NComputing's virtualization software and hardware is tapping this unused capacity so that it can be simultaneously shared by multiple users."

Sharma said the L-series uses standard Ethernet infrastructure and has effectively no distance limitations between the shared PC and the user. A basic PC can support 30 added users and a high-end server can support over 100. This small device delivers web-quality multimedia and is pegged at US$150 per user. It includes the vSpace virtualization software.