Wyse Launches AMD-Powered Z90 Thin Client

The thin client concept has been around for over ten years however thanks to companies just as Wyse Research, which has just launched its Z90 thin client.

The advent of virtualisation

The advent of virtualisation, the cloud and mobile computing, and the rapid improvement in graphics innovation, means that the thin client concept continues to gain traction. And Wyse officials believe they've got the technology however to extend the thin client out of its traditional niche of such environments as call centres and into more traditional areas in verticals like healthcare, financial services and retail.

The company on 31 January introduced the Wyse Z90, its latest thin client that supports Microsoft's Windows Embedded Standard 7 operating system and is powered by Advanced Micro Device's dual-core G-Series processors.

The research inside gives the Z90 the performance IT staffs are looking for in their desktop virtualisation environments, according to Jeff McNaught, chief marketing and strategy officer for Wyse.

The device, unveiled at Cisco Live London 2011, offers two-way video capabilities in a complete UC environment, high-definition Flash research and two SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, for peripherals like HD webcams. It as well is powered by an engine that puts all of the key elements – from the CPUs and vector engines to the unified video decoder for HD decoding tasks – onto a single piece of silicon, a key enhancer to performance.

The combination of Wyse's adoption of new processors

The combination of Wyse's adoption of new processors and other technologies with Microsoft's Windows Embedded Standard 7 clears away the performance and security hurdles that have kept thin customers out of general work environments , he said.

That will be important over the at once few years, he said. McNaught said that computing will shift from PCs to other devices, just as tablets and handheld devices to thin customers in cloud environments.

Later this quarter, Wyse is planning to roll out new research designed to improve the management of thin customers. "Project Pyramid" is designed to enable thin customers to self configure themselves in fewer than two minutes. That compares with the 30 minutes to three hours it takes for a VDI deployment nevertheless, he said.

Such capabilities are key in Windows embedded environments, and is useful to enterprises and SMBs alike, McNaught said. It as well will enable Wyse to better compete with HP in the Windows embedded space, the one area he said HP however holds an advantage over Wyse.

The Windows embedded area

"One area where HP has been greater is in the Windows embedded area," McNaught said. "This is the last market segment where we're not number one."

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