30 Minute Interview

RCS to provide greater security with lower TCO

HP recently launched its Remote Client Solutions (RCS) in Asia. Joergen Jakobsen, VP and GM, Commercial Systems Unit, HP Personal Systems Group (Asia Pacific and Japan) talks to Vinita Gupta about the rationale behind this launch.

Joergen Jakobsen

RCS and its uses

Remote Client Solutions (RCS) are data cent er alternatives to the traditional desktop or workstation.

RCS helps address these issues by improving business continuity and security, lowering operational support costs, and increasing agility by allowing IT staff to focus on growth opportunities, not technology problems.

The solution stack

HP offers two RCS—the HP Blade PC Solutions and HP Blade Workstation Solution that centralize the processing power of the client system and maintain all data resources within a secure data center so that users can work from anywhere using a simple access device.

The RSC portfolio consists of centralized hardware such as traditional HP thin clients often used with server-based computing architectures, the Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) Blade PC solution, Blade Workstations and Desktop Infrastructure running on ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. Based on common systems management allocation management, protocol and access device infrastructure, the portfolio allows IT customers to meet the needs of a varied workforce.

About the Asian launch

We found that customers in Asia are looking at security, lower TCO and third generation technologies and launched RCS to satisfy this need in the market. HP is the only global solutions provider to offer a unified portfolio of solutions including thin clients, blade PCs, blade workstations as well as common management tools which give customers an affordable, secure and reliable computing experience. For instance if there is no backup on the PC and the hard drive or power fails, data is lost but with the help of RCS the customer can gain access to data in few minutes.

An employee can access the same solution from his personal PC and office and the IT person in the office knows when, how, from which device the employee connected.

About third-generation CCI

The third generation CCI blade PC solution introduced enables businesses to deploy blade PCs to the full range of traditional desktop users while delivering a true PC experience; with the security and business continuity benefits of RCS and the ability to reduce the total cost of their technology ownership by as much as 50 percent over a traditional desktop infrastructure.

HP has also introduce the BladeSystem bc2000 and bc2500 blade PCs and Remote Graphics Software (RGS) as a part of the CCI solution; to provide greater processing power and performance, improved graphics and streaming video to users with network connectivity and a thin client or other access device.

India as a market

India is a fastest growing market for HP. For RCS we would be looking at the thin client and service-based industry, e-government, legal and call centre environments. We will first work with enterprises and later with SMBs as they usually do not have an IT centre. HP will invest toward building a strong team that can help in education and implementation of these solutions.