Posts tagged Pano
Dead-End?
It occurred to me some time ago that life is like a multi-lane highway that starts as a 24 lane road when you’re born, and then you slowly starts to lose lanes as you get older. It probably drops to 16 lanes while you’re going to school and then steadily diminishes by life, politics, the law and so on. Eventually it leads to a sin [...]
Pano Logic has something new
Pano Logic, one of our preferred vendors has just released Generation 2 of their amazing Zero client cube. What makes their products unique is that they don’t have a CPU, RAM or firmware in their cubes, yes they really are maintenance free and a ZERO compared to their zero client competitors that really aren’t true zeros. The Pan [...]
In praise of slightly fat Nettop boxe...
So what’s a Nettop? Think of the Netbook PCs, inexpensive $350 low powered 10″ screen PCs that are convenient but not very fast. Take the screen and keyboard away and you’ve got a Nettop, except they have better quality, higher performance components, designed to a price point, but for longevity. Insert a 32 or 64GB SSD dri [...]
From the darkside to the light
So here’s the problem… IT is run ragged, constantly, being reactive to the less than happy employees. IT doesn’t have time, money or energy to proactively develop plans to implement new ways to enhance the business. They are spending their time putting out fires. Is it any wonder than real firemen get a pension at 50; they must be too tired a [...]
How IT works
The IT department has a difficult job. They must make sure that every PC user has a functioning PC, the apps they need and access to data that they are authorized to see and use. One of the way they do that is through the refresh cycle. Typically, IT will replace 1/3 of the PCs under their purview each year. So in a company with 150 desktop P [...]