Since everything is managed, stored, and secured in a central server, thin client systems eliminate the issues of installing, updating and patching applications, backing up files, or scanning for ...

A client machine that relies on the server to perform the data processing. Either a dedicated thin client terminal or a regular PC with thin client software is used to send keyboard and mouse ...

Everything old is new again-desktop virtualization moves computing from current fat-client server architecture back to a model similar to times past. What is now device-oriented will become ...

Server-based, thin client computing today takes several forms. Traditionally, thin client solutions revolved around groups of terminal servers running dozens of individual user sessions.

A server equipped to support 5 concurrent thin clients could support 50 such thin clients -- not unusual for a typical computer lab -- if the bandwidth were sufficient and if those thin clients ...

I have never understood thin clients, primarily since I never worked with them.Here's what I envision doing. This is a fervid dream, filled with love and lust, but hey, it's what keeps me going ...

For me, an ideal thin-client server would need redundant power supplies, hard drives, disk controllers, CPUs and LAN ports (of course you would also need to support this with a sensibly-designed ...

A small server is a useful tool to have that unfortunately wastes a lot of energy. [kekszumquadrat]’s thin client home server is actually a passable LAMP box that doesn’t draw a ton of power.

In thin-client deployments, a lot of processing happens on the server side. However, powerful thin clients are needed as applications rely more on graphics or heavy client-side processing.

Columnist Craig J. Mathias remains a fan of thin-client mobile computing, but he says the throughput and the critical mass of wireless connectivity needed to make it worthwhile isn't here yet.