Why Use Remoteboot?

The Remoteboot service promotes the use of diskless clients by eliminating the need for a hard disk on each client. This has several advantages:

• Increased network security by using clients that do not have disk drives that can be used to illegally copy data and to introduce viruses
• Greater control over the distribution of information and software resources
• Ease of updating software centrally
• Reduced cost in buying and maintaining client computers

Using the Remoteboot service has advantages for clients with hard disks as well:

• Easy upgrading of software and operating systems on many clients
• Greater flexibility in standardizing clients while allowing custom configurations

In general, the Remoteboot service offers greater control to the network administrator.