| VMware, Wyse Take On Managed Desktops |
| Tuesday, 08 August 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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Wyse Technology said today that it has the ability to host VMware virtual machines on some of its thin clients, giving IT managers an alternative to running Citrix and Windows Terminal Services. Wyse has developed a VDI Edition of Thin OS, the 1.5MB embedded operating system that runs on its S-class terminals. The Wyse thin clients run standard Remote Desktop Protocol and connect to a VMware ESX server hosting the virtual desktops. Alternately, for shops with large numbers of thin clients to manage, they can connect via a connection broker such as those offered by Citrix, Propero or LeoStream and simplify mapping thin clients to their virtual machines. In the long run, application virtualization may make a much deeper impression on the desktop than thin clients because it doesn't require the use of proprietary hardware. Like application virtualization today, thin computing of yore had as a mantra to "make the client system more flexible and secure," said Michael Dortch, principal business analyst and IT infrastructure management practice leader at the Robert Frances Group Inc. in Westport, Conn. "But the way to do it was never to take away existing hardware and replace it with something far less functional – that was never going to fly." Read the entire article here.
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