| Server Based Computing Gets A Lift |
| Wednesday, 19 July 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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Citrix and Microsoft are poised to take advantage of increasingly powerful hardware for their server-based computing architectures. As a result, many organisations could be attracted to server-based computing, also known as thin client, as a way of cutting IT costs, consolidating their servers and having a more secure and controlled PC environment. Server-based computing environments virtualise multiple application instances on a single server operating system, and allow users to access those applications remotely. Citrix and Microsoft have the two most popular platforms for server-based computing, which enable virtualised desktops to run over a network from centralised servers. Citrix Access Suite (formerly Metaframe) users require Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server to run the Citrix Presentation Server software, which is part of the Access Suite. The two suppliers' products go hand in hand. Users will therefore be required to implement both the forthcoming Windows Longhorn Server version of Terminal Server (about which there are few details available) and a future version of Citrix Presentation Server. In addition, they will need up-to-date hardware. Users will require servers with 64-bit multicore processors, more addressable memory, and larger and faster hard drives, according to analysts. Microsoft's Terminal Server test team carried out tests of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1. These found that the software was able to scale to support many more users, if the hardware configuration was right, said Costin Hagiu, a member of the testing team. The first hardware element that will boost the Terminal Services environment is 64-bit processing. Read on here.
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