HP introduced new mobile thin client hardware, extended software offerings and deeper industry alliances that strengthen the industry’s broadest portfolio of virtual business technology solutions.
The new HP 2533t Mobile Thin Client combines the best of HP’s industry-leading thin client and business notebook technologies to enhance data security and improve both ease of use and reliability.
In addition, HP announced that its full portfolio of Citrix-Ready thin clients and blade client products is now available with Citrix XenDesktop, as well as being certified by VMware Inc. for compatibility with its VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
“Today’s news is the latest example of HP’s building momentum in the client virtualisation market,” said Roberto Moctezuma, vice-president and general manager, Desktop Solutions Organisation, HP. “We’re offering businesses a one-stop shop to meet their virtualisation needs with the most comprehensive portfolio of virtual client solutions, ease of management and the highest levels of IT security.”
HP’s broad remote client solutions portfolio of desktop virtualisation offerings includes its industry-leading Thin Client lineup, Blade PCs and workstations, HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), HP streaming clients with HP Image Manager, remote deployment, management software, and services. HP Remote Client Solutions help business customers dramatically reduce security risks and management and support costs by centralising computing hardware and sensitive data within the data centre.
HP is also announcing plans to further invest in the advanced multimedia technology on which the HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) was created. HP is working with virtualisation software vendors to expand the technology to significantly enhance the rich multimedia experience available through thin clients or other remote devices.
Originally developed in HP labs, RGS is already in broad use by customers spanning financial services, health care, education and research, engineering, and digital content creation. HP will be working with its key software virtualisation vendors to develop additional solutions for improved video performance, interoperability and scalability of large virtual desktop implementations serving business PC users.
“We believe the combination of HP thin clients and RGS is the ideal choice for a rich virtual desktop experience, regardless of the chosen virtualisation infrastructure, and we want to ensure customers can take advantage of this solution with whichever infrastructure best fits their business needs,” said Moctezuma.