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Thin Clients: Selecting the Right Desktop Strategy for Your Organization

Overview Thin clients can offer significant advantages when properly deployed. While cost has been the major factor touted by many thin client proponents, these machines can also improve security, manageability, and simplicity. Furthermore, thin clients can offer "hidden" benefits, such as allowing IT departments the ability to codify and enforce IT best practices and liberate their staff to work on more strategic business/IT alignment initiatives.

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Publisher	IDG (International Data Group)	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	May 2004	Downloads	144
Format	White Papers
Topics	Thin Clients, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Application Servers

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