The US-based WYSE Technology Incorporation-a pioneer in Thin computing is considering to make Pakistan a hub of its commercial activities in the South Asian region due to its investor-friendly atmosphere.
The president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the WYSE Technology Inc, Dr John Kish, is likely to visit Pakistan in the third week of August, 2006.
Founded in 1981, the WYSE Technology Inc is a technology manufacturing company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with offices world-wide.
The company introduced economical, ergonomic, and attractively designed terminal products of high quality and reliability. The WYSE, world-wide customers include FedEx, AT&T, Abbott, Citibank, Xerox, DHL, Lockheed Martin, Bayer, UPS, Pfizer, Exxon and Marriott etc. Despite aggressive competitors entering the marketplace as early as the following year, the WYSE has continually maintained its Thin-client leadership.
Thin client is a simple programme or hardware device, which relies on most of the function of the system being in the server.
By the mid-1990s, the model of decentralised computing where each user has his own full-featured and independent microcomputer, seemed to have displaced a centralised model in which multiple users use thin clients (eg dumb terminals) to work on a shared minicomputer or mainframe server, but the scenario is changing again.
The main objective is to provide better services to its customers. Especially, those who are suffering from the poor networking support of some operating systems.
Thin computing is a computing architecture that shifts complexity from the edge to the centre of the network. This architecture enables new ways to access information and eliminates the most frustrating corporate desktop issues faced by a company's Information Technology (IT) department, specifically security, manageability, reliability, and cost.
Thin computing is a model that can be used successfully by companies and institutions of all sizes to increase productivity and security while reducing IT costs.
Thin Computing delivers the access people need, at a much lower cost than traditional methods, all without compromising security or manageability. It makes it easier for the IT to manage systems and improve the reliability and security of information, which dramatically lowers IT costs.
Thin Computing still provides the access to applications and data that people need in order to move the business forward. All the while improving on the security, reliability, and availability of PCs. Problems that run up the cost to deploy PCs enterprise-wide.
It includes hardware services and software that work with the Thin Clients and PCs, as well as the wireless devices and other systems.
It gives everybody in an organisation secure access to the information and the applications they need, without requiring the desktop systems to store them.
Besides, the increased availability of high-bandwidth network connections allows Thin Computing solutions to run at near desktop speeds.
Which makes it easier and more acceptable for business professionals to use Thin Clients in mission-critical applications.
The WYSE software makes it easy to manage, update, and even service any Thin Client from one central location. After all, it's much easier and more cost-effective to manage several servers than thousands of individual desktop PCs.
And with no moving parts thanks to solid-state technology, the WYSE Thin Clients deliver greater reliability, availability, and lower cost of ownership than other solutions.
The WYSE(r) Winterm(tm) line of thin clients has led the industry for the seven years it has been tracked. When integrated with additional hardware, software, and services they become part of a complete solution to a business problem.
To stay productive in an environment of emerging protocols and standards, hardware-like terminals and other embedded operating system-based devices must be managed. WYSE(tm) Rapport(r) device management software is one of few products in the industry designed to support global enterprise installations of tens or hundreds of thousands of connected devices.
On June 14, 2006 WYSE announced its second wave of exclusive enhancements to Microsoft(r) Windows(r) CE 5.0 for its thin client customers. WYSE Feature Release 2 (WFR2) is the latest release of the WYSE-enhanced Windows CE and will be offered in new devices and as an upgrade for current WYSE customers.
"Driving forward on WYSE's promise of providing the latest thin client functionality, including support for performance-enhanced Citrix ICA 9, this new release brings an unprecedented level of functionality and flexibility to WYSE's Windows CE 5.0 based thin clients," said Ricardo Antuna, Vice-President of Business Line Management at WYSE.
The WYSE and its technology partners enable the largest companies in the world to achieve competitive advantage and deliver better service to their customers and employees by allowing them to utilise precious IT resources that many organisations expend on traditional distributed desktop environments.