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ABSTRACT:
Legend has it that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once hid out in a cabin on Highway 789 in Baggs, Wyoming, a claim to fame that one of the town's 349 residents has proudly noted on the town's Web site. With the state capital of Cheyenne located "152 miles as the crow flies," this distant outpost was no doubt an ideal place for the famous bandits to hunker down and avoid trouble.
But the very thing that attracted Cassidy and the Kid has Michael Pate throwing up his hands. The IT director of Houston-based Complete Energy Services has to support a two-person office in Baggs. "It's a minimum two-hour drive from anywhere," he says. "If a PC breaks out there, we're in trouble."
Providing field support for some 20 different locations around the country is Pate's single most compelling reason for corralling thin clients into the IT architecture of this $290 million firm, which provides a range of oil well site services. The ratio of fully-loaded "fat" desktop PCs to thin-client Windows terminals is about 90/10 at Complete Energy Services now, but that's about to change. Pate plans to expand that skinny piece from 10% to at least 60% of his network of 250-300 PC users later this year.
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AUTHOR:
Maryfran Johnson
Editor in Chief, CIO Decisions
Maryfran Johnson is CIO Decisions' editor in chief. Write to her at mjohnson@ciodecisions.com.
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