<font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">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.<br>
<br>I believe it would function with </font></font>VMware ESXi<font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">, and it now supports MSFT Hyper-V, but the vendor we were working with really pushed the more expensive VMware stuff.<br>
<br>They offer a pretty inexpensive trial kit at <a href="http://customer.panologic.com/Store">http://customer.panologic.com/Store</a><br><br clear="all"></font></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Chip Kruthoffer, Systems Manager</span><br style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">
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<br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Chad Neeper <<a href="mailto:cneeper@level9networks.com">cneeper@level9networks.com</a>><br>To: "<a href="mailto:oplintech@oplin.org">oplintech@oplin.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:oplintech@oplin.org">oplintech@oplin.org</a>><br>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:54:26 -0400<br>Subject: [OPLINTECH] sub-Thin Client<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<a href="http://www.panologic.com/" target="_blank">http://www.panologic.com</a><br>
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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.<br>
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