NComputing lowers the cost of computing

NComputing can significantly lower the cost of desktop computing by as much as 70%. Winner of The Wall Street Journal 2007 Technology Innovation Award, these innovative devices from NComputing utilise the unused capacity of a standard PC and share this to a number of users.

Benefits include:

• Reduced cost of purchasing by as much as 75% over a lab of traditional PCs.
• Share the resources of powerful desktop PCs across as many as 11 users.
• Lower electricity costs, 5watts of power vs a typical PC power supply of 300watts.
• Lower maintenance costs, no moving parts in the "thin clients", you only need a technician to maintain the "host PC".
• Lower heat generation - an important issue if you have air-conditioned computer environments.

Hardware models are packaged as follows:

• X550 - a PCI Card plus 5  "thin clients" that connect directly to an existing PC.
• X350 - a PCI Card plus 3 "thin clients" that connect directly to an existing PC.
• L230 - a thin client that adds support for a local USB port, microphone and speaker connections.  The L230 connects to an existing PC via your standard 10/100 Ethernet network.
• U170 - a new USB connected thin client (Nov 2009)

These clients are well suited to school and library computer labs where the cost of maintenance can also be significantly reduced.  These units only use a fraction of the electricity consumed by a standard PC, generate much less heat (air-conditioning savings) and have no moving parts - resulting in greater reliability and even further savings.

Datec are the exclusive distributors for the NComputing products in the South Pacific.

Comparison with the "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC)

•  OLPC vs NComputing    (236 KB PDF Document)
  

Download the following documents for details on the NComputing solution.

• NComputing X550 Technical Datasheet   (371 KB PDF Document)
• NComputing X300 Technical Datasheet   (220 KB PDF Document)
• NComputing L130-L230 Technical Datasheet   (254 KB PDF Document)
• Ncomputing U170 Technical Datasheet  (833 KB PDF Document)

Read more about NComputing in the media:

• NComputing - The Dark Horse in Virtualisation? (www.ctoedge.com)
• NComputing Surges Ahead of Wyse in Asia Pacific
• NComputing Equips 1,000 Learning Centers with Virtual Desktops
• Indian Social Security System to use 31,000 NComputing Virtual Desktop Clients
• Windows 7 catalyzing desktop virtualization (www.zdnetasia.com)
• 10,000 virtual desktop computers in 1,000 adult learning centers (www.webhostinggeeks.co.uk)
• NComputing to support the new Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 (WMS) platform