NCS Features the HP Jet Fusion 5200 3D Printer

Layered Protection for Government Cyber Security Threats

Reliable and Secure Printing You Can Trust

See NCS For Rugged Servers Expertise

NCS Technologies is exhibiting a variety rugged of servers today at the Aberdeen Proving Ground Fall Technology Expo event, Top of the Bay, Building 30, Plum Point Drive, Maryland. Show hours are until 1 p.m. NCS designs and builds servers, rugged servers, appliances and provides engineering services to the military, government agencies and businesses.

See NCS For Rugged Servers Expertise

NCS Technologies will exhibit a variety rugged of servers Wednesday at the Aberdeen Proving Ground Fall Technology Expo event, Top of the Bay, Building 30, Plum Point Drive, Maryland. Show hours are 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. NCS designs and builds servers, rugged servers, appliances and provides engineering services to the military, government agencies and businesses.

10th Annual Small Business Procurement Conference

The Social Security Administation Thursday hosted its tenth annual procurement conference at the Mikulski Auditorium, Baltimore. The conference focused on providing updates on its Socio-Economic Programs and discussed Initiatives for Digital Services.  The conference is an annual event that allows small businesses to engage with contract representatives, SSA employees, contractors and other agencies.

Users Ponder the Alternatives

The one-day VMware expo Carolina VMUG UserCon is now over, having attracted hundreds of attendees in Charlotte yesterday. NCS staff attending the show met with nearly everyone and report that attendees were very interested in NCS virtual desktop solutions. As expected at VMUG events, sophisticated VMware users expressed hard requirements for improving manageability, driving down cost of ownership and improving security. In all of these metrics, zero clients from NCS Technologies outperform thin clients from the Tier One PC vendors.

An underlying thread to many of the discussions was an interest on the best remote display protocol to implement. Users are aware of choices including Remote Desktop Protocol, PCoIP, Blast and HDX. For the VMware environment, many agreed that RDP, HDX and Blast lacked the fuctionality required to deliver the full PC experience, and the consistency and manageability IT managers prefer.

PCoIP Shines in Both Virtual Desktop and Cloud Environments

Looking back at this very busy month, NCS executives spent a significant amount of time at government agencies, military bases, hospitals, at commercial establishments and participating at trade shows, promoting the ins-and-outs of desktop virtualization. At each stop we continue to find strong interest in PCoIP technology and in NCS zero client solutions, and curiosity about how they measure up against thin clients from the major PC brands.

These customers are becoming more aware every day that thin clients used for virtualization come with significant disadvanges. As they become experienced with thin clients, they are turned off that they are complex to administer. Thin clients often include a small hard drive, an embedded operating system and some memory. They are complex and expensive to use over the long run.  

PCoIP zero clients, in contrast, use an integrated purpose-built processor (from Teradici) that does image decompression and decoding, transmitting pixels instead of data. A zero client PC does not need a general purpose CPU, local storage or an application operating system. PCoIP zero clients are secure and easy to manage and deliver low cost of ownership.

Breakthrough, Super Secure, Remote Access Technology 

Getting out of the office and talking to customers and end users quickly grounds you with exposure to real day-to-day issues. For those of us actively promoting virtualization technologies and solutions, it's easy to forget that for busy IT administrators, virtualization is just one of their many daily challenges.

Attending a user group this week reminds me that for many IT administrators, it is still murky to tell the difference between thin client end points and zero clients.

Make Plans to Visit Booth #5644

The year's largest Health IT conference is just a few weeks away, and many people in the healthcare and IT security ecosystem are making travel plans to be in Orlando to learn about new products and solutions and to hear about the latest trends as highlighted in the many breakout sessions and keynote speeches.

HIMSS17 is scheduled for February 19-23 at the Orange County Convention Center in Florida and brings together more than 40,000 health IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors. Learning and the exposure to cutting-edge health IT technology is what this annual conference is all about.

Please join NCS Technologies at Booth #5644.