If your company has a lot of desktops, you might buy AMD to protect your infrastructure,
Quotes about desktops (16 Quotes)
What's new here is that we now have one tool and one set of interfaces that manages Windows servers and desktops and Linux servers and desktops, and which can be configured to run in a Linux environment. That one toolset provides the customer with complete freedom of choice.
The PC remains a severely underutilized resource, and it costs a lot to manage and maintain desktops in a large company. The blade option offers a cost-effective solution. They are space-efficient and come with failover, so management is a lot easier.
There's still the ability to shop for all desktops and notebooks on the site, but we felt the need to break down the major categories to limit the number of choices that appear.
The weakest part of our overall business is in U.S. corporate sales in general, probably desktops,
Business desktops are a narrow, narrow margin business they are almost a commodity. You have to be very efficient in order to make money selling desktops.
I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.
Microsoft would no longer have guaranteed placement on users' desktops. That would mean its ability to leverage the desktop in terms of selling other services would be severely reduced, or it would have to negotiate directly to get that leverage.
However, some warn that advertisers should be careful not to overestimate their relationship to consumers. Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus, a New York interactive agency, cautioned, When you look at the reach, you're limited to the number of people who have this on their desktops. ... It's a big commitment for consumers.
Notebook computers now offer much of the functionality of desktops, and consumers and businesses alike are spending the extra for the added benefit of mobility. In that sense, mobile growth is coming at the expense of desk-based PCs to some extent.
When you are in a larger company, and you're dealing with 2,000 or more desktops, you need to have an integrated way to deal with that information.
Policy enforcement for security products and the ability to control access to the Internet from a central server are key success factors in ensuring corporate desktop security and protecting the bottom line. In looking at the big picture, this must all be part of a multi-layered anti-virus and content security solution that spans the entire network environment, from gateways and servers to desktops and mobile devices. Such an infrastructure enables the delivery of timely updates that protect every corner of your network -- and therefore your business.
There's more to Intel than notebooks. China and India are seeing stronger-than-normal demand for desktops,
Since declining over the past week, it is our opinion that the shares of each microprocessor supplier sufficiently discount potentially slower PC sell-through as well as the potential for aggressive pricing this winter. We continue to receive confirmation of strong notebook PC and server demand, even if desktops are less clear.
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
We are definitely focused on small business. Our average client is 25 to 30 desktops. That's the market that we've been in all along and we intend to stay in. Virtually all of our clients are less than 100 employees, although we do have larger clients where we do some aspect of supporting their environment.