Wyse is the #1 vendor the world’s largest businesses and institutions trust for scalable network-centric computing solutions. Wyse hardware, software, and services ensure customer’s desktops are secure, reliable, and agile, preserving capital and increasing productivity.

When it comes to the desktop, organizations need to find the right tool for the right task. Most companies issue PCs to their workers - except when notebooks are justified. A similar needs analysis should only place desktop PCs where they're justified. Thin clients can deliver huge benefits for everyone else; most organizations start with task-oriented workers and eventually migrate thin clients to general office workers as well.

Maximizing the benefits of server-centric computing, Wyse Technology is the worldwide leader in thin clients. The Wyse® Winterm™ line of desktops are secure, managed, affordable, and reliable and help organizations maximize IT productivity while minimizing security risks.

Network-Centric Computing

Network-centric computing is a computing architecture that shifts complexity from the edge to the center of the network. This architecture enables new ways to access information and eliminates the most frustrating corporate desktop issues faced by CIOs, specifically security, manageability, reliability, and cost. Network-centric 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.

Today, this model and Wyse products are used by nearly half of Fortune 100 companies. Moving forward, we see significant opportunities for this model to evolve into a form of stateless device computing that delivers breakthrough benefits to a greater number of enterprises, and eventually consumers.

Virtually every enterprise will benefit from the adoption of network-centric computing and the development of a sustainable IT infrastructure. While PCs continue to be a critical resource for certain functions within an enterprise, including mobile workers and employees who require specialized applications on their desktop, many workers and functions can significantly benefit from network-centric solutions in which all data and applications reside on the server. At the same time, greater centralized management of the entire IT environment, including thin clients and PCs, will substantially improve productivity, reduce IT costs and ensure greater business continuity and security.

Critical benefits of a sustainable IT infrastructure based on network-centric computing include:

• Manageability: Centralized management, enabling rapid deployment of new applications, easier and faster support of end-users, and greater control over the use of systems.
• Security: Safer data and greater business continuity because all data resides on the server. Users cannot write data or install programs locally to their workstation, thus eliminating viruses on the local network.
• Affordability: Reduced cost of acquisition and dramatically lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO calculated to be 40-67 percent less than a PC).
• Reliability: Fewer breakdowns, greater data integrity and better uptime. If a winterm ever malfunctions for any reason, you simply replace it. There is no installation or configuration to be done on the client to get the user back online and productive.
• Productivity: End-users enjoy fewer disruptions due to downtime and misuse of technology for non-work related activities. IT departments can devote more resources to creating business value because they are freed from non-value-added support and maintenance requirements.