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> Users sit at workstations - each with a screen, a keyboard
> and some local memory - sign in with passwords and gain
> access to both processing power and individual work files.
> Each worker gets a PC blade, but not always the same one.
> The processing resources are allocated by Hewlett-Packard's
> OpenView software, developed over years and used for
> managing workloads in corporate data centers.
OK, they sit at "workstations". Hmm. Are these also PCs that need to be
maintained or are they Windows Terminal Servers. If they're PCs, I would
think that having two PCs to maintain would be more expensive, if not, is
the cost of the Windows terminal included in this savings? It sounds easier
to maintain. I would think you would have to "nail" some users with
specific software to certain blades (Cad users for example). I wonder about
software that requires a security dongle. I also assume that all scanners
and printers need to be networked too. Finally, I wonder how the blade
approach would compare to Citrix, Windows Terminal Services or even a VMWare
approach.
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