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I was asked an interesting question at Tech@Work last week here in Sydney – I was asked by someone from Local Govt. where they could find TCO or ROI Calculators for justifying the purchase of Thin Clients.
This chap also wanted know where the break-even cost was for implementing Thin Clients?
So after chatting to him for a little while it became apparent that like a large number of SMB organizations they had the following:
- 150 or so PC’s
- 3 different types
- No real desktop management system other than Ghost
- They had attempted creating an SOE, but had not finished/followed it through
So I pointed out that it was likely that they already knew and understood the true annual cost of PC Support as published by Gartner in that it was likely to be costing them in the region of 140 – 160% of the capital cost of the PC per year? Yes they were.
So at this I pointed out that they have effectively proven to them selves that Thin Clients make sense – so why didn’t they just target say the receptionists (who only typically use email?) and replace the PC with a Thin Client and point the browser at the Web version of GroupWise? 3 x receptionists = 3 times the saving? and build on things from there?
It didn’t dawn on me till later that by asking for TCO/ROI/break-even costs he was actually wanting info on how PC’s compare to VDI? (and presumably he was wondering about the costs of the back end?) He just didn’t mention it all.
I guess my point is that you can start using Thin Clients in lots of places within in an organization to cut costs today before you even start down any road with VDI, Brokers, Hypervisors, etc. Start being inventive in how the apps can be deployed and used and you’ll start seeing a number of opportunities to do things differently?
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