Posts Tagged desktop
21000 virtual desktops distributed at JavaONE
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in General on 03/06/2009
As every year, JavaONE attendees have access to a public set of SunRay thin clients for Internet access.
This year however, the user experience is different. Attendees do receive access to a full, dedicated virtual machine with their OS of choice : OpenSolaris, Ubuntu or Windows Vista.
When the attendee inserts its conference card into the SunRay, he is prompted to choose a desktop, the desktop is booted in a virtual machine on one of our servers and delivered to the thin client in a couple of seconds.
When the attendee removes the smart card from the SunRay, the virtual machine is suspended and stored for later usage, the day after or later.
Each time the attendee reconnects the smart card in any of the 200 available SunRays thin clients, it receives back its very own personal virtual machine.
Wonder about the infrastructure we deployed to provide this service ? Check out this article which goes pretty much into all the details.
Sun Ray Branding
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in General on 16/09/2008
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SunRays are our ultra thin desktop clients, part of our Desktop Virtualization solution. These little business oriented devices generaly adopt a sobre grey look but do you know they can be custom branded too ? This is what we did for ING Netherlands, currently adopting these desktop devices to reduce their maintenance costs, simplify the desktop administration and meet their CO2 objectives by significantly reducing power and cooling needs. |