Monday, 9 July 2012

Case Study 5- Question 1


Imagine that you are the business manager for your university. What type of computer would you recommend for broad deployment in the university’s computer labs – a standard desktop personal computer or a thin client? Why?

Standard desktop computer have a variety of advantages over both laptops and notebook computers in term of the cost and accessibility. In the world of broad deployment in the university’s computer lab thin client is suit the terms where a lot of computers in the university need an application that runs on a personal computer as well as workstations and relies on the server to perform some operations. Using a client application that runs on the PC where the functions are to send and receive data over a network to the server program. Therefore, every subject will have a different program as well as their own database.

For big universities that have a many computer labs, thin client is planned to be especially small so that massive data processing happens on the server itself. University has their own programs on a University Server and allows any thin client device to access standard university applications PC standardization for the students. Thin client provide more flexibility and management solution and allow increasing the number of IT devices needed for studying.

Advantages of using thin client:

  • ·       Straightforward to set up as it does require no specific software installation.
  • ·       Ease safety risk
  • ·       Standard software, where anyone can use the same version of the applications
  • ·       Decrease troubleshooting, support as well as prevent from the costs of data recovery
  • ·       Less Expensive and reduce maintenance costs
  • ·       Improve security where its secure to store documents and data files
  • ·       Prevent risk on conciliation software
  • ·       Can enlarge more workstation more reliable, easy to control and increase the lifecycle of the workstations.
  • ·       Can access university IT resources from outside the college, provide students with same right of entry same as those that living in the campus.

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