Now more than ever, tightening of corporate budgets is forcing IT to balance business-critical projects against routine operational projects, such as the annual PC refresh process. Replacing an aging PC with a thin client is a proven approach for reducing costs, but when those cost savings are paired with innovations in desktop virtualization and improvements in thin client system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology, the transition to thin clients becomes even more attractive.
A number of business drivers are reinvigorating the trend of virtualizing desktops with thin clients:
- Extending the PC refresh cycle: Organizations recognize that extending the life of older PCs may result in short-term savings but in the long term, the costs of supporting and managing older hardware significantly outweigh these savings.
- Low-cost design of SoC technology: Although PC costs have been dramatically declining, SoC thin clients hit a price point substantially lower than any PC by combining all the individual computing components of a PC into a single chip.
- Evolution of desktop virtualization technology: Dramatic advances in desktop virtualization technology are making virtual desktops easier to deploy, simpler to manage and, in many cases, more cost-effective than distributed PCs.
- High-performance user experience: As part of these advancements, the virtual desktop user experience from a low-cost SoC thin client has been enhanced to deliver performance equivalent to that of a high-end PC.
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