The expense associated with owning and operating a PC workstation begins with the purchase price of the PC and peripherals, but it doesn’t end there. In fact, the Florida-based Tolly Group, that specializes in IT certification, research and testing, reports that companies generally spend over $12,000 per year per workstation.

Support and Administration
Over 75% of workstation expenses are recurring costs. This includes technical support, software upgrades, application maintenance, backup and recovery, and productivity related costs.

In a client-based network, straightforward software upgrades are tedious and expensive, while enterprise application deployments are major projects in terms of hours required. Technicians must physically distribute applications to each user device at their location, as well as deal with version control, data replication, and multiple system configurations.

With the Jetro CockpIT™ architecture, technicians need only update a centrally located server farm. The investment in technical maintenance on each server is then leveraged across 40 or more users. User devices are installed with a simple and uniform configuration at a central location, then shipped and plugged into the workers’ locations. End users automatically benefit from hardware and software upgrades on the servers, without making any change to their personal device.

Client Hardware
With the Jetro CockpIT™ architecture business applications run on the server rather than the client. This allows users to run the latest software with low-end workstations and operating systems, which in turn eliminates the need for upgrades. When workstations stop working they are not repaired. They are replaced. This allows employees to get back to work immediately. In addition, new workstations can be implemented with inexpensive Windows-based terminals. Because they rarely break or require upgrades, the terminals’ usable lifespan is three to four times longer than a PC.

Client Software
Likewise, the need to update operating systems is eliminated. Any version of Windows, from Windows 95 onwards, will allow the end user to run the latest applications, regardless of which operating system they use or how much computing power they require.

Networking Infrastructure
Because only key entries, mouse clicks, and screen paints travel across the network, networking bandwidth requirements are greatly reduced. This reduces or eliminates the need for costly networking upgrades.