The Next Generation of Desktop Technology

Topic The Next Generation of Desktop Technology

Time 11.00am

Date Live Wednesday 26 July 2006

Duration 60 minutes

Description

Feedback from ComputerWeekly readers has suggested that there are two key management issues affecting the working lives of CIOs, heads of IT and IT Directors: aligning IT with the business and reacting to downward financial pressure.

Such factors are keenly felt when senior ITR management has to manage large PC estates that reside in all enterprises. As IT management is only too aware, the cost of managing, repairing, upgrading and running large PC estates dwarfs the actual price of purchase. It is estimated by leading analysts that during a PC’s lifetime, 80% of costs are attributed to support and maintenance issues.

Yet there is a new dawn in PC technology emerging that could fundamentally change totally the way in which large PC estates can be run. These new technologies will essentially make PCs more intelligent elements of networks, being able to be managed centrally by IT departments even when switched off.

This means that technology repairs upgrades, patches and other essential management functions can be performed at any time and not just when the PC is switched on. In effect such new chip technologies will create an energy-efficient, secure, performance optimised PC platform with no compromises.

Users of such technologies will ultimately streamline their management practices. They will see benefits in terms of increased security of the PC estate, manage the estate more effectively and efficiently, see increased performance in their PC estate and fundamentally enjoy substantial reductions in operating costs and in power utilisation.

This webinar will show how such benefits can be obtained from the newly emerging technologies.

The webinar will look at the following issues