Much of this concern associated with the rise cost of PCs is around security: patching the operating system (OS) and applications on each system; updating antivirus, antispyware, antispam, and firewall definitions on each system; backing up the data; and more. As a result of these cost and security issues, an increasing number of companies are considering alternative client devices and new types of infrastructure systems, such as enterprise thin clients and virtualized servers running client sessions with streaming software applications. These new centralized computing architectures may sound confusing initially, but they are actually straightforward implementations of technologies, such as virtual servers and image streaming, that have been available for several years. Best of all, these virtual client solutions provide the simple and easily understandable benefits of cost and security risk reductions from a centralized computing model while maintaining the dynamic, flexible, and compatible nature of individual PCs.

Financial services firms especially have many regulatory restrictions. The idea of turning data over to an outsider is still a deal-breaker. In this podcast we'll be discussing new opportunities for reducing client management costs and improving enterprise security while increasing resource utilization through the use of new enterprise architectures enabled by virtual servers, streaming desktop PC images, and enterprise thin clients: a combination that creates virtual clients.