Reduce TCO with thin clients

Hardware	Software
Upgrade	Networking
Standardization	Recovery
Availability	Software Management
Backup	Archiving
Security	Performance
Training	User Support
Software Development	Data Duplication
Process Duplication	Administration

Analysts estimate that thin clients reduce the cost of desktop computing by 28%-57% per year compared to the cost of a typical networked PC (Gartner Reports).

Although the initial acquisition costs of thin-clients are minimal, because the low price of thin-clients are usually offset by the additional server power you need, the return on invest is seen very fast. This is because of the reduced overhead required to service the thin-clients versus the fat-clients.

This is due to the fact that thin-clients have no moving parts, and therefore less things to break. The Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of thin clients have tested at 175,000 hours versus just 25,000 for the typical networked PC. With the user having less control over applications and interfaces, there is less to break as well, and data-loss is not an issue.

The average life of a PC is about two years before it reaches obsolescence.

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