The concepts of this week were about enterprise computing. Basically, the lectures handed out the ideas of how to tackle using computers in a large environment, and how to do it cheaply. First we talked about RAID and new technologies on it, such as RAID 5 and it's capabilities. Next we talked about different ways to store the data and efficiencies, such as HSM and SAN's, these ideas are of great use and are of the many options to tackle efficient storage. Next we talked about Virtual clients and thin clients. Both are similar enough, but with some major differences. I happen to have some experience with a virtual client, by owning a mac with parallels and VM.
These concepts are very important for a computer engineer in the business environment. I'm not sure that most of this would be completely useful to the average person, but stuff on virtual computing and thin clients surly would. Thin clients are an awesome idea, yet this is the first I have ever heard of them. I could see them being a huge part of computing in the future.
Here is a link to an article on thin clients. (http://www.hp.com/sbso/solutions/pc_expertise/article/thinclients_consider.html) This shows when a thin client would be necessary, or a good alternative. I think that this clearly shows that there is a large use for these clients and they are becoming more resonant in our daily life. I'm excited to see businesses switching over to use these clients, because it seems exponentially more efficient than to use a desktop for everyone.
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