A new research shows that IGEL thin customers in a virtual desktop atmosphere can be up to 63% much less damaging to the surroundings than a conventional Pc deployment. The independent research, performed by the renowned Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, analyzed two scenarios with virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) across their whole lifecycle.

In the 1st scenario at a Dutch healthcare organization, the combination of IGEL thin customers and virtual desktops primarily based on VMware View™ proved to be 47% much less harmful to the climate than a Computer workstation with locally installed applications put to equivalent use. This research covered the total lifecycle of the gadget: from its production, more than a 5-year period of operation, all the way to its ultimate disposal.

In the second installation at Fraunhofer, using Citrix XenApp™ and Citrix XenDesktop™ virtualization computer software, the global warming potential[1] (GWP) calculated over the whole lifecycle, with a service life of three years, was 30% to 63% that of the Pc workstation manage situation, depending on the kind of user involved.

For medium-degree users, the combination of an IGEL thin client and a shared desktop provisioned by way of Citrix XenApp™ (terminal server) is presently the finest solution from an ecological and power-efficiency viewpoint. Compared to the manage situation with a traditional Pc workstation, this configuration decreases the international warming likely (GWP) more than its entire lifecycle by 63%. For a medium-degree user, the GWP, measured in kilograms of CO2-equivalent (kg CO2eq), is 417 kg CO2eq for a traditional Computer workstation and just 156 kg CO2eq for an IGEL thin client, like its terminal server share.

The study also showed that most of the climate-appropriate strengths of thin client/VDI options are accounted for by savings in the course of their operational phase. Based on the application scenario and user sort, 61% to 77% of the greenhouse gases emitted all through the lifecycle are from operation, followed by 17% to 28% throughout production.

IGEL Thin Clients: Universally Deployable End-User DevicesIn each of the installations examined, thin customers from IGEL Technological innovation were utilised. The lean, non-proprietary thin customers (model used: IGEL Universal Desktop UD3 LX) assistance standard terminal server environments running Citrix or Microsoft, as effectively as desktop virtualization solutions from VMware®, Citrix®, Microsoft®, Red Hat® and other providers. In direct comparison to a common Computer workstation, the compact thin client with a service life of three years causes just 122 kg CO2eq, while a desktop Computer used for the identical amount of time causes in between 417 and 692 kg CO2eq (ranging from medium-degree user to power user).