[H-GEN] Dealing with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

[Rick Phillips]

> I'd say it's the wrong track. You can cut TCO of hardware and licensing 
> by using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solutions (AKA "thin clients") 
> instead. You could even have enough money in the budget to supply mobile 
> workers with company laptops.
> 

You could be right and that's why I am canvassing.

> The thin client setup could use your existing desktop hardware as 
> endpoints. Desktop endpoints can be swapped out to sub $200 clients when 
> they die, and these clients probably have a life of around 8 years.
> 
We have been down this track before and it was not very successful
however, we know that things have changed a lot in terms of capacity and
grunt.  We discussed this only this afternoon and with about 1000
machines needing to connect to a wide range of software packages AND
store data, we will probably need a small cluster of servers with big
mobs of ram, quad core high end CPU's and HDD capacity.  We also have to
make sure we can back up the critical stuff reliably and efficiently.
Ideally we would run Linux as the main OS with Server 2008 in VM(s) as
probably, Linux will be easier to cluster (I have read).

> BYOD is a maintenance, organisational, efficiency and security 
> nightmare.
> 

Most solutions would qualify for that observation - we are looking for
the best result over all.

Regards,

Rick