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Previous thin client solutions allow users to use a low-cost thin client device or the use of terminal emulation on their PC desktop to run applications in the data center. The display content generated from the application is automatically transferred to the thin client display device. However, because the de-encoding of the multi-media files (video and sound) is accomplished on the server-side, the un-encoded multi-media content cannot efficiently reach the thin client device through existing network bandwidth, even if fiber-optic cabling is used. For this reason, thin client solutions have not been able to provide 100% compatibility for general purpose PC desktop usage.

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The total cost of ownership, or TCO, of a traditional PC desktop machine is not just the cost of the PC hardware and software, but also the cost of setting up the PC by installing management and protection software, maintaining the PC's hardware and software systems, providing help desk support, and other overhead costs, such as data backup. These service costs can run from $2,000 to $7,000 over a 3 or 4 year period for each PC used in business. The Virtual PC Center solution helps to reduce PC costs providing a lower total cost of ownership by at least 30% and usually much more over the same period of ownersh

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Once a low-cost thin client device can be used at the end-user workstation to provide a full Windows environment, the end-user application processing can then be virtualized thereby consolidating the processing of multiple users' PC activity on a few servers in the data center, and to take advantage of the CPU processing headroom available on these servers. It is too expensive for each user to have their own server especially since the amount of processing utilized by each user is typically less than 3% of the server's capacity on average. By virtualizing the client session multiple users can now use the same server, each with their own virtual user space. This maximizes the CPU processing capacity of a server while minimizing the amount of hardware needing to be purchased.

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The answer is in the data center where it is safe, secure, backed up, and under the watchful eye of the IT manager.

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No! Everything operates the same as a traditional desktop PC, including all the software applications they have been using before moving to VPCC. All of the user's data is also available. The only thing the user may will notice is that they no longer need to worry about backing up their data, they no longer need to worry about maintaining their software, they no longer need to worry about crashes, or slow performance, or many other problems they use to worry about in order to manage their own desktop PC. The benefits for VPCC are not only helpful to IT but also the user benefits too.

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Each VPCC workstation user has an individual operating PC computer in the data center that is connected over the local area network. However VPCC combines sets of PC user's computers onto a single powerful NEC server, the NEC 5800 Express Server. In this way one computer can "host" multiple PC users in a very efficient way. It's the NEC Virtual PC Servers that are in the data center.