Efficiency
Drives cost out of the delivery of services, eliminating capital expense in favor of more easily managed operating expense
Agility
Increases speed and agility in deploying services, adapting to seasonal or cyclical computing needs
Speed
Shortens implementation cycle time
Flexibility
With application deployment decoupled from server deployment, applications can be deployed and scaled rapidly, without having to procure physical servers
Ubiquity
Applications can be made available anywhere, any time
Cost avoidance
Minimizes the risk of deploying physical infrastructure, lowering the cost of entry, thin devices enable Green IT
Accelerated innovation
Reduces run time and response time, increasing the pace of innovation
Task Workers
Call Centers addressing the trend to move employees off campus and into home
Challenge: PCs are virus prone, difficult to manage, and at risk of data being exposed or devices being stolen. Tried terminal services and dissatisfied with user experience
Require flexible seating, reduction in energy, and simplified management and deployment
Financial Services
Branch systems with varying classes of users across broad geographies attracted to client vitalization for security and compliance.
Challenges: VDI pilots proving difficult to scale, user experience across branch system is inconsistent, require higher levels of user functionality for banking peripherals.
Healthcare
Hospitals addressing the need for EMR and access to common databases and information
Challenge: Healthcare environment, ease of secure access to up to date EMR, access for field professionals. Risk of theft of traditional PC devices, and the liability of data loss and exposure, universal access throughout the primary and satellite facilities
Education
Schools need to provide common IT functionality to faculty, staff and students
Challenge: shrinking budgets, limited IT administrative support, ageing computing devices, providing lesson and status access to parents, teachers and students from home
Engineering
Technology companies needing to provide secure, access devices to on shore, off shore, and outsourced engineers and developers.
Challenge: Requirements to deliver productivity applications while addressing performance demands of engineers and developers
Security/Privacy
No HDD prevents data from being stored on the client, improving data security. All data stays on the server / cloud, enhancing privacy enforcement. Devices can be virus proof, removing a security concern for the endpoint component of the environment.
Compliance
HIPPA in Healthcare, Basil-II in banking, and Sarbanes Oxley regulations all require data to be protected and centralized. Thin endpoints enforce this requirement, easing compliance.
Manageability
Lowest TCO is accomplished when all endpoints appear similarly to the server. TCs, TPCs, and Thin mobile devices (handheld and notebook size) are all centrally managed, and look the same to servers. Like the Southwest Airlines strategy – all 737-300s – easier to manage.
Reliability
Thin clients are far simpler in design than traditional PCs, and deliver far greater reliability. Measured in terms of MTBF (Mean time between failure), PCs offer 30 – 40K hours, but TCs deliver far better ratings at 80 – 375K hours.
Rapid Deployment
No imaging requirements on most thin devices make TCs deployable in minutes, not hours as with most PCs. TCs go from carton to desktop to productivity in minutes. No software to load, little configuration needed.
Power, Noise, Cooling
TCs use a fraction (less than 10 percent) of the energy needed by traditional PCs. No fans or moving parts in TCs eliminate noise, and reduce AC requirements in the work areas.
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Software as a Service (SaaS) |
Platform as a Service (PaaS) |
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) |
Desktop as a Service (DaaS) |
| Offers |
A complete application offered as a service on demand over the internet |
Combines layers of software, provides it as a service used to build higher-level services |
Basic storage and compute capabilities as standardized services over the network |
Complete desktop solution consisting of virtualized PC operating systems, apps, storage and infrastructure. May include client device. |
| How it works |
A single instance of the software runs on the cloud and services multiple end users or client organizations |
Encapsulated service presented through an API. Customer interacts with platform through the API, and platform does what is necessary to manage and scale itself to provide a given level of service. Virtual appliances can be considered instances of PaaS |
Servers, storage systems, switches, routers, other systems are pooled and made available to handle workloads ranging from application components to high-performance computing applications |
A public cloud holds complete virtual desktops using proprietary or commercially available software to manage and maintain the virtualized environment, applications and operating systems |
| Examples |
Salesforce.com
Google Apps |
SF.com's Force.com
Google Apps Engine, Microsoft Azure |
Amazon EC2, Joyent, Skytap |
Wyse WSM™, Desktone, Nivio, icloud |
| Does Wyse add value? |
Yes, web clients for access to SaaS applications, and software to manage the clients, improve user experience, accelerate responsiveness of applications |
Yes, with Java and Linux-based clients for secure access to open source software platforms, clients for access to Microsoft-based platforms, Wyse software to manage, improve and accelerate user experience |
Yes, clients that efficiently and securely access the complete infrastructure using RDP, ICA, or PCoIP protocols, software that manages clients, improves functionality, accelerates the user experience |
Yes, Wyse partners with DaaS providers to validate Wyse clients for DaaS. Wyse virtualization software enables and improves the user experience and enables users to be positioned further from the DaaS provider's facility |
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