The enterprise has been working so hard to put enterprise information management into centralization, and it's the only way for protecting critical enterprise information from leaking. As kinds of cloud computing technologies getting ready, centralization of enterprise information management is no longer a dream. And thin client will become one of the most important endpoint devices for using all kind of cloud services. The operational model for thin client is the typical client-server architecture. Thin clients have been well controlled by the enterprise, so the employees can use them to access each cloud services safely (ex. Desktop Cloud, Application Cloud etc.). This paper will focus on the technologies using by thin client. In Chapter II, we give the introduction of thin client. In Chapter III, we talk about the cloud technologies related to thin client. And the conclusion is given in Chapter IV.
Remote Desktop Services Terminal Thin Client Zero Client Client-Server Architecture Server Virtualization Hypervisor Virtual Machine Monitor VMM Desktop Virtualization Blade PC Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI Application Virtualization