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Diskless stations are usually used at user’s site. They are not necessarily new computers but all the software is installed on them, including each user’s data profile, which makes the data to be centralized and installation administration and backup to be considerably much easier.
Thin client / server-based computing is booming. Companies are realizing it’s the only way to solve the rapidly escalating problem of fat client management. Thin clients eliminate the tremendous effort required by fat clients for hardware upgrades, software updates, application deployment, security, and backup of data stored on fat clients.
In a server-based computing environment, only the servers need to be managed. Data and applications reside on a few servers rather than on hundreds or thousands of clients. PCs become terminals and can be replaced by simpler, less expensive -and most importantly -easier to manage devices called "thin clients".
An additional advantage of server-based computing is that employees can telework/roam more easily.
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