Thin clients windows 8

The devices will be tuned to work with the touch-based Metro user-interface in Windows 8, and the new hardware will be shown at VMware's VMworld conference in San Francisco between August 26 and 30, said Jeff McNaught, chief strategy and marketing officer of the Wyse business unit at Dell, on Tuesday. The OS has improved virtual desktop features and the touch interface that could make thin clients more interactive with a tablet-like usage model, McNaught said.

One example would be kiosks, which could capture information better with touch. McNaught declined to provide details on the type of thin clients Dell would launch, but said the hardware would provide more "finely tuned" experiences based on Windows 8. Dell's Wyse unit offers a range of products including thin clients in the form of laptops, monitors and zero-client desktop boxes. Virtual desktops are served to the thin clients either via centralized or virtualized servers, and Wyse also provides desktop virtualization tools to enable remote desktops.

For example, the company provides PocketCloud for tablets and smartphones based on Apple's iOS or Google 's Android so the mobile devices can access files on Windows and Macintosh computers.

Wyse also offers a software stack compatible with Microsoft, VMware and Citrix virtualized environments. Desktop virtualization is taking a cloud-like approach, and the traditional concept of the PC being the hub isn't the case anymore, McNaught said. Dell and Wyse continue to work closely with VMware, Microsoft and Citrix, who are deploying sophisticated tools and are able to deliver an entire user experience to remote clients.

The user interface is better, and the cost of adding a user to a virtualized environment is less, which is making desktop virtualization attractive, McNaught said. Users also have more devices that can be virtual desktops.

Dell bought Wyse to become a major vendor in the virtual desktop space, which is still growing, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. Dell offered virtual desktop products, but Wyse has a far broader range of assets, including sophisticated management software and related services for provisioning of virtual desktops to a wide range of devices. McNaught said Wyse is fitting smoothly into Dell, and there could be other opportunities to extend Wyse technology, such as in cloud computing and mobile device management tools.

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