IT going green: Thin clients cut costs and strengthen security

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ce58c0a8-f1e0-11dc-9b45-0000779fd2ac.html

Everything needs to be green these days. No exceptions for IT either. This article tells about saving energy or electricity by using thin-client. “A thin client is a network computing device that depends primarily on the central server for processing activities. In most cases, a user's applications are run on the central server and the thin-client processes only keyboard and mouse movements and receives updated video images. “This kind of retro trend is being evoked by IT venders like IBM, HP. In the past, thin-client or network PC was introduced as transit product before end user computing. I wonder if this retro trend will appeal IT users especially power users in enterprise level. They are already familiar with powerful user tools including application that need much hard disk drive to operate and save in their local disks than ever. Personally I see this trend is one of IT venders’ strategies to expand their stance in hardware scope as well as application re-development business opportunities for SI companies.