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By Cedric Vanhaver, Guest Contributor

IT budgets for U.S. schools have always been far too low to allow every child to access a quality PC. While budgets may not change, NComputing is changing technology to resolve this problem. NComputing has developed a solution that allows a single, conventional PC to power up to 30 PC stations without a hit to performance.

The company revived the ’70s concept of mainframe computers and is putting its own twist on the approach. NComputing developed an access terminal that allows any low-cost Windows or Linux desktop PC to be shared simultaneously by 30 users, who still get to enjoy a full desktop PC experience. NComputing’s technology achieves this by harnessing the untapped power of the PC (PCs typically use only about 5-10% of their processing capacity) and redistributing it to other terminals.

NComputing technology has been adopted in 70 countries worldwide and more than 90 percent of the company’s business (with more than half a millions seats deployed worldwide!) comes from schools, who use the money they save through NComputing’s technology (each seat costs only $70, as opposed to hundreds for a conventional PC) to buy more of NComputing’s access terminals for their students.

See the company’s Web site by clicking HERE.