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This calculator identifies and quantifies the cost of a thin client rollout and PC replacement. In general, the cost categories can be categoried into the followings: 

• Network infrastructure costs by moving the desktop to datacenter as well as upgrading WAN bandwidth requirements
• Planning costs - CLI's desktop specialists help procure, install, pilot test before you rollout. Save with CLI.
• Training costs - Educating your staff on applications, servers, and support. Save with CLI
• Software licensing costs - beyond datacenter license cost, desktop thin client might need managment software license. Every CLI thin client comes with CLI Device Manager by`default`which is easy to use and without the cost associated. Save with CLI.
• Datacenter costs - with the adoption of desktop virtualization, the datacenter cost is inevitable

However, lower total cost of ownership (TCO) dramatically by consolidating server hardware. Nearly 50% of respondents to the Yankee Group 2008-2009 Global Virtualization Deployment and Usage Survey said that virtualization helped them save money. Only a small 4% minority of the survey respondents indicated that virtualization had not enabled them to lower their TCO.

• Deliver a built-in backup and disaster recovery solution
• Provide faster, more efficient application deployment and provisioning
• Improve reliability via isolation of workloads because virtualization enables multiple operating systems to coexist in the same physical machine in strong isolation from each other
• Cut IT expenditures by consolidating server and software application licenses by providing corporations with four single Windows or Linux operating systems for the price of a single license, all running in one virtualized machine
• Lower utility and power costs through equipment consolidation
• Reduce the actual`time`and manpower devoted to managing the server environment by 30% to 55% across the entire enterprise, according to the Yankee Group 2007 Global Server Survey

Virtualizing the OS on powerful data center servers and delivering it to lower power thin clients via the LAN proved to be an effective strategy. Contact sales@computerlab.com to request the Gartner desktop virtualization TCO report.