Who Should Not Use A Tcsc Solution - HP Compaq t5125 Supplementary Manual

HP Compaq Thin Clients t5000 Series: Benefit Analysis Paper
Who Should Not
Use A TCSC
Solution
It is important to evaluate your IT needs before implementing a TCSC solution. The
following types of users should not employ a TCSC solution:
Content creators, such as graphic designers and CAD artists
Workers who need to constantly load new applications to their system
Any users that require high control of their PCs and powerful local processing, such
as marketing professionals
The following table presents a list of reasons not to use thin client technology.
Limitation
Perceived loss of autonomy
Legacy applications conflicts
Limited graphics
Reliance on LAN/WAN
Description
Users accustomed to working in an
unmanaged computing environment may
perceive the inability to configure their
desktops as a loss of autonomy.
With the advent of terminal services, several
users will be using the same PC (i.e. the
terminal server) simultaneously to access the
same application. Software certified for
Windows 2000 will adequately resolve the
potential problems associated with this, by
tracking registry keys and ensuring that
individual user settings do not overwrite
system settings. Legacy software generally
does not do this tracking and so the scope for
conflicts between settings is greatly increased.
These conflicts can normally be resolved, but
it is crucial that adequate testing and
redesign takes place.
High-end graphics or moving environments
are difficult to translate into thin client
protocols. Thin clients are not an optimal
solution for users that work with and develop
such applications.
HP Thin Clients utilize ATI Rage XC graphics
and faster processors to improve the
performance of graphic-intensive applications
for the best user experience available.
Thin-client computing relies on constant
connectivity between the server and the client.
If that connectivity is broken, clients cannot
continue working, although their current
session will remain in the state it was in at the
time the link was lost.
Although there is increased dependence to
the server, thin client servers are typically
load-balanced among a number of redundant
servers for a highly reliable network.
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