Extending Hardware Lifespan

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In addition to extending application lifespan, it is also vitally important to gain additional mileage out of hardware. Corporate America's three-year refresh cycle for PCs appears to have become a thing of the past in organizations struggling under the burden of massive IT budget cuts. The public sector model, for example, is sometimes characterized as a run-to-failure one; that is, system administrators replace items when they stop working. This operating basis is starting to creep into various enterprises that are strapped for cash. The downside of tighter belts is the resulting mix of networks ranging from 386s to Pentium IVs running every version of Windows released over the last decade — in other words, a nightmare for support personnel. While it might be easier to upgrade everything to a single platform, such a sweeping change is rarely in the budget. XP, therefore, incorporates Windows Terminal Services (WTS) to preserve the value of current investments until new equipment can be procured. With WTS, end users obtain the benefits of XP applications even if they have older PCs and do not have the resources to run XP itself.



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Server Disk Management in a Windows Enviornment
Server Disk Management in a Windows Enviornment
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Year: 2003
Pages: 197

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