The thin client market in Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region totalled 419,000 units in the first half of 2009. These figures represent an increase of 15.5 per cent over the first half of the previous year, revealed research firm IDC in its latest Asia Pacific quarterly thin client tracker report.
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Reuben Tan, senior manager of IDC Asia Pacific's personal systems group, noted that the financial services segment marched ahead of the other verticals in terms of thin client deployments. This segment was able to capture almost half of all thin client sales in the first half, as banks in China relied heavily on both domestic and multinational thin client suppliers in the second quarter.
Driven largely by the education sector, the public sector fulfilments grew 47 per cent over the second half of last year, said Tan.
"IDC believes that spurred by continuous developments and improvements in desktop virtualisation applications, thin clients are also now able to gain a foothold in a significantly broader range of markets compared to the past, Tan continued." IT managers are increasingly starting to acknowledge that the long-term cost savings associated with a virtual desktop are maximised when the access point is converted into a thin client type device."
Centerm, HP, HCL, Start, nComputing and Greatwall were the top six vendors in APEJ in this year's first half. The award-winning line of Wyse thin clients were left behind by vendors over the second quarter of 2008. These vendors smartly leveraged the opportunities presented by nComputing's surge in the education sector in various markets.
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