Wyse Brings Mobility to Cloud Computing

Wyse Technology on Wednesday announced the launch of the Wyse X50c mobile thin client with PCoIP and a new, more powerful software system. Ideally suited for campus roaming access to virtual desktops, the Wyse X50c provides a flexible yet secure lightweight device that’s easier to manage and support remotely.

As organizations seek to support more flexible working with virtualized environments across campus office sites, they want to deploy clients without issues of securing, managing and updating individual clients. The current approach is to use normal laptop PCs, but those devices carry an inherent risk of data theft or loss. Not only is this not secure, it is also inconvenient for users to have to navigate the local operating system to reach their remote workspace.

The new Wyse X50c mobile client (based on Wyse-enhanced SUSE Linux) is designed for simple and secure mobile computing in and around an office campus. Optimized for use with the leading virtualization solutions including VMware View 4.5™ with the PCoIP® display protocol, the Wyse X50c requires no hands-on management and automatically updates and configures itself based on network settings. Using Wyse-enhanced SUSE Linux also gives enterprises peace of mind, as it is the only thin Linux distribution with a Microsoft patent cooperation agreement, making it a safe choice for enterprises.

The Wyse X50C is purpose designed for remote working and provides seamless access to personal workspaces. Weighing around 1.3 kg (3lbs), the device is built for high-quality mobile use with a powerful 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor, 29cm (11.6in) LED backlit screen, and up to eight hours of battery power.

Launching its latest enterprise Linux and PCoIP solution, Wyse is demonstrating its cloud client computing leadership through close collaboration with Novell, and thus giving customers the flexibility and support of the latest protocols (Citrix HDX, Microsoft RDP, and PCoIP used in VMware View) without the need for a Windows-based client.

"Our customers have loved being able to take advantage of the latest protocols like PCoIP without the labor intensive task of keeping PC’s safe and healthy," said Hector Angulo, Product Manager at Wyse. "With the new Wyse X50c, customers who require a mobile client can now enjoy the security and ease of management breakthrough benefits of Wyse-enhanced SUSE Linux."

"The Wyse X50c combines simplicity, security and convenience in one very small package," said Vittorio Viarengo, vice president, End User Computing Products, VMware. "The combination of the X50c and PCoIP will enable IT to deliver the access to remote desktops users desire while being able to easily maintain control over their client infrastructures."

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Flexibility, Security, and Cost: Key Factors in Cloud Computing

"The security threats from highly organized offshore governments and cybermafias are so great that small enterprises are turning to large, trusted cloud servers for protection," notes John Sundman in this exclusive post-show interview with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. John Sundman, founder of Cloud Expo exhibitor wetmachine.com, is a novelist who writes for software developers. He has a lot of experience in hardware and software organizations.

Cloud Computing Journal: A very general question first, about Cloud Computing itself: Surely we've heard all of this before in various forms and guises - grid computing / utility computing, etc.? What is different this time - why is everyone so convinced it will now work?

John Sundman: A bunch of reasons, such as:

1. The cost of hardware keeps coming down, and hardware keeps becoming more reliable even as the challenges of managing vast secure networks multiply. Until fairly recently, CIOs and other decision- makers were concerned with hardware costs. Hardware costs are not such a concern anymore, so people are able to step back and look at the real costs of developing expertise. And it makes more sense to outsource when you can.
2. The marketplace has been prepared by applications like Hotmail, salesforce, Flickr, Facebook, etc. This makes it easier for people to explain the difference between cloud-based applications and locally hosted applications. As recently as five years ago, the whole notion of web-based applications was hard for people to understand. Now everybody gets it.
3. The security threats from highly organized offshore governments and cybermafias are so great that small enterprises are turning to large, trusted cloud servers for protection, much as peasants turned to feudal lords for protection in the middle ages. ABC Manufacturing, Inc, is no match for the most sophisticated computer scientists of offshore criminal gangs and governments. But Microsoft and Amazon are.

Cloud Computing Journal: What are the three main factors driving CIOs toward the Cloud?

Sundman: The three main factors are flexibility, security, and cost.

Cloud Computing Journal: And what are the three main barriers preventing some CIOs from moving some of the on-premise computing to the Cloud?

Sundman: First, specialized needs not met by any off-the-shelf cloud solution. Second, CIO conservatism, that is a general reluctance to adopt new trends until they've been proven. The final barrier is security - some concerns have even more expertise in specific data security issues than cloud vendors do.

Cloud Computing Journal: How does your own company's offering/s assist CIOs and organizations/companies?

Sundman: I write novels to help CIOs and people with similar responsibilities relax and learn. Throughout human history, art and literature have provided an essential data-processing need: artists and storytellers help people digest and deal with the unsettling complexity all around them. There has never been a successful, decent human society that did not have artists and storytellers. There's a reason for that. Humans need art. We need stories.

Cloud Computing Journal: Are there other players in the Cloud ecosystem offering the same - or is your company unique? Why?

Sundman: There are other geek novelists, for example Neal Stephenson. But we are few.

Cloud Computing Journal: We hear talk of a Cloud Revolution and also of a Cloud "evolution" - either way, what kind of time span are we talking about, do you think. In other words, for how long is Cloud Computing going to exert its pull on the minds, hearts, and budgets of all involved in modern-day Enterprise IT?

Sundman: I would guess three years. Lots of IT people at small concerns are going to lose their jobs. This saddens me a lot. But I think it's inevitable.

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