[OPLINTECH] Panologic

[Chip Kruthoffer]

We looked at Pano Logic early last year and almost entered a trial, but
decided against it. At the time, Windows 7 support wasn't official, which
was a deal-breaker for us. It is an appealing solution on multiple levels,
but there isn't really any initial cost savings when you factor in the
back-end needs of the servers, redundancy, staff training, etc. Streaming
video performance was also a concern. I wouldn't even look at this without
gig switches in place.

I believe it would function with VMware ESXi, and it now supports MSFT
Hyper-V, but the vendor we were working with really pushed the more
expensive VMware stuff.

They offer a pretty inexpensive trial kit at
http://customer.panologic.com/Store

Chip Kruthoffer, Systems Manager
Lane Libraries ~ http://www.lanepl.org
1396 University Blvd. (Admin. Center)
Hamilton, Ohio 45011
P: 513.785.2706
E: c.kruthoffer at lanepl.org

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chad Neeper <cneeper at level9networks.com>
To: "oplintech at oplin.org" <oplintech at oplin.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:54:26 -0400
Subject: [OPLINTECH] sub-Thin Client
Ran across an interesting case study (read: advertisement) in a reseller
catalog I receive. I don't usually pay much attention to the junk mail, but
I happened to thumb through this one and saw a reference to the Staunton,
Virginia public library. According to the "case study", the library has
converted to using what appears to be a sub-thin client type of setup. The
client device seems to be little more than a KVM linked over 10/100 Ethernet
to a VSphere, Citrix, or Windows RDP server. The client device appears to
consume less than 5 watts of power, so it's considerably more energy
efficient than a PC or a real thin client device.

Thought I'd pass it along. I've not looked into it too much myself, but I'm
curious, very especially if it would work with the free VMware ESXi, which I
already heavily leverage.

http://www.panologic.com

Disclaimer:  I'm not a Pano Logic reseller, know next to nothing about them
or their product, and certainly not trying to make any money by advertising
their name or product.
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