The 元00 comes with two USB 2.0 ports for remote devices, two USB 2.0 ports for keyboard and mouse, 1/8-inch microphone and speaker jacks, a 10/100Mbps Ethernet port, and a standard DB15 VGA port. There are no moving parts in the 元00 - no noisy fans or spinning hard drives. The L-Series client devices - I tested the paperweight-sized 元00 - are stand-alone Ethernet-enabled devices that require only a VGA monitor and USB keyboard and mouse. There is no support for third-party thin clients, software clients on laptops, or Web-based remote access. One downside to the NComputing solution, as with Pano Logic, is that it works with the vendor's proprietary access devices only.

With the ability to connect up to 100 user sessions to a single NComputing vSpace server, the combination provides a simple and powerful desktop. This is the long-term support (LTS) version that is replacing the previously released vSpace Pro versions. (See InfoWorld's ' Thin Client Computing Deep Dive Report' for more on Terminal Services and thin clients.) Powered by NComputings Numo System on a Chip (SoC), the L-series client device costs less than any other thin- or zero-client options and is a quarter of the cost of typical desktop PCs. vSpace Pro LTS is intended to be used by NComputing customers who wish to stay on the long-term support for their deployment without feature and functionality enhancement. This does not mean that a group of engineers can all run AutoCAD on this host, but normal everyday business apps, like word processing and email, will have little trouble. For instance, an off-the-shelf desktop PC with 4GB of RAM and a decent CPU can host up to 30 simultaneous clients on Windows XP Pro. Performance on a LAN was excellent, but the NComputing solution suffered some performance issues over a WAN.īecause vSpace is so low-overhead and well-optimized, it doesn't require the latest in server virtualization technology to handle multiple users. Much like Terminal Services, it carves up the underlying system's resources among multiple users, allowing a single computer to host as many as 30 simultaneous desktops.

NComputing's vSpace is a virtualization application with an ultrasmall footprint that runs on any Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host operating system. NComputing is the only VDI solution of the three reviewed that provides its own virtualization layer - no VMware, Citrix, or Microsoft hypervisor required.

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