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Published on: 5/12/2008
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Although ClearCube provides its own software-management suite, the company's PC blades can be managed by Citrix software or by any other thin-client-management software on the market, according to Ken Knotts, a ClearCube senior technologist.
"We make the motherboard using all industry standard parts, such as Intel Ethernet cards, Intel processors and Nvidia graphics cards said Knotts.
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"In high usage scenarios, you can have some latency, but a lot of hospitals are running dedicated networks to limit latency," Knotts said.
Another IT concern is the risk of declining morale when users have their PCs taken away from them and replaced with thin clients."A thin client is manageable, secure and centralized, but they don't give you the performance, scalability and end user experience that some people have come to expect after interacting with PCs for so long," Knotts said.
"The end user's first response is: ,You're going to take my PC away from me?' They cross their arms and stare sternly, until they start to use the architecture and realize that nothing has changed.Their data and applications are just located in a different place," he said.
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