Organizations about to kick off their next major desktop hardware refreshes or upgrades will need their sourcing groups to be alert to the growing importance of green IT.

Recently, businesses have begun to reexamine the value of implementing thin-client hardware to replace traditional desktop systems. Advocates point to the gains the thin-client approach offers, including lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and lower power consumption, in comparison with mainstream PC environments with supporting-server architectures.

This white paper reviews how the growth of green benefits has resurrected the thin-client computing debate.