14 DAY TRIAL // LG Electronics may have just offered businesses the type of solution they sought in their quest to reduce infrastructure costs without butchering their productivity.
There are many work positions nowadays that require employees to have their own computer, but LG may have removed this need.
Its P Series, new VMWare-based Zero Client cloud monitors, are built in such a way that they can connect to a central server over Ethernet. In other words, they do not need a PC main unit.
This is owed to the fact that LG's Zero Client Cloud Computing technology consolidates servers in such a way that the monitors only need a LAN cable and peripherals (keyboard and mouse).
Workers require no local CPU, memory or storage, nor an operating system.
It also helps that the VMware platform is an automated virtual infrastructure that manages the network, ensures system efficiency and performs scheduled backups and updates on its own.
A third asset is the UPoE technology from Cisco, which tracks power draw, makes real-time adjustments and even supplies energy to networked devices.
Add to that extra security from only having to oversee one server or data center and you don't really need anything else.
“These monitors are a highly appealing option for the next generation workspace architecture,” said J. J. Lee, executive vice president and head of IT business unit of LG Home Entertainment Company.
“The P Series combines two technologies -- cloud monitor networking and IPS panels -- for a combination that offers exciting new possibilities in terms of efficiency in the workplace and gives LG a significant role in virtual computing.”
As described on the product page, the 23-inch N2311AZ is a Full HD IPS panel (1920 x 1080p) with two 1W built-in speakers, Teradici PCoIP Processor, VMware Software, LED backlighting and USB ports for mouse/keyboard and authorization. Price-wise, it supposedly sells for $470-500 (360-400 Euro).