Orbis Financial Corporation Chooses Devon IT TC2 Thin Clients

Orbis Financial Corporation, a privately-owned, SEBI-registered custodial financial services company, has deployed TC2 thin clients to replace traditional desktop computers. Orbis offers a range of financial services for clients including commercial banks, corporate entities, high net worth individuals, pension funds, stock brokers, and insurance giants. The company’s expansion prompted a review of their IT environment, as their business was becoming more technology-driven and the need for secure, scalable, and flexible was vital. The IT department decided that a thin client environment would better suit their needs than a PC environment.

“Being a financial services provider, Orbis is heavily dependent on a robust, secure IT platform,” says Ramkumar Mohan, senior manager of IT for Orbis. “One of our key differentiators is ‘agility in the face of change’. Our company needs to have the best in data security, system and application availability and performance, user support, and provisioning time. Keeping this in mind, Orbis has deployed Devon IT’s TC2 thin clients, virtualisation software, blade servers, and a greener data centre due to the solution’s ability to deliver what we need to be successful.”

The TC2 is VDI, Xen, and RDP-capable and designed to be an alternative to standard PCs. Standing less than six inches in height and five inches in length, the TC2 is the market’s smallest generally available thin client as per company claims. It consumes 8-9 watts on average and is VESA-mountable to maximise desktop space.

Devon IT set up a proof-of-concept trial with Orbis that was tested by a fraction of the company’s employees. The end-user performance of the TC2, coupled with partners’ virtualisation software and data centre hardware, and the solution’s price point were the two main factors in securing the company’s business.

“We chose the TC2 solution because of features and costs,” says Mohan. “We see a complete value for our money in opting for this solution, as it offers centralised management and control of our IT, much lower TCO, the high security and flexibility we rely on, and fast deployment.”

Joe Makoid, president of Devon IT, said, “We were proud to work with Orbis to achieve what companies and organisations are beginning to accomplish all over the world, which is to bundle and deploy thin clients, virtualised desktop infrastructures, and green blades and servers instead of ageing PCs. Thin client solutions today provide cost-savings without sacrificing performance, and we expect more companies like Orbis to reap these benefits worldwide.”