In 2008, The Hammers Company, Inc. undertook a project to design a secure, always-on mission control room for the US Geological Survey (USGS) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This initiative involved providing engineers with PCoIP zero clients connected to individual Dell R5400 rack-mount workstations hosted in the data center. These workstations ran both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems, ensuring the mission control room’s seamless operation.
This case study delves into how The Hammers Company, in collaboration with Leostream, modernized hardware for the government, reduced ownership costs, transitioned from physical to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and retained the security and usability of the original system.
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