Lenovo teams up with Wyse to offer energy saving thin clients
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Lenovo computers are set to augment their existing range of notebooks and desktops by reselling products, including hardware and management and multimedia software, from thin client giant Wyse Technology. This will enable customers to purchase a range of Wyse kit directly from Lenovo, including desktop and mobile thin client computers and software solutions like Wyse Thin OS, Wyse Device Manager and Wyse WSM.
Steve Petracca, senior vice president of software and peripherals at Lenovo was quoted as saying “adding solutions from Wyse Technology to our Lenovo ThinkPad notebook and ThinkCentre desktop portfolio will give our customers a complete, industry-leading technology solution all in one place. With customers in all industries, especially healthcare and finance utilising thin client technology, this partnership helps integrate a customer’s thin client and other PC requirements.”
Thin clients are seen by many as the way forward for IT and a report from the experts at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute earlier this year suggested that the switch from PCs to thin clients could save companies millions in electricity overheads, in addition to slashing carbon emissions by some 485,000 tons a year. “Energy consumption when in operation was up to 50 per cent lower than for conventional PCs,” Dr Hartmut Pflaum, a Fraunhofer researcher, said earlier this year. “While PCs consume about 85 watts on average, thin clients including their server get by with 40 to 50 watts.”