Peter Gehl - 3 minute video of colorado state university story on "eco computing". CSU emphasising its eco agenda calling itself a green university and the creation of an "academic village", plus 60 kiosks across the campus - focused on engineering discipline.
Gartner saying that PC Unit decline to be sharpest in history - the only difference is mininotebooks. Very large enterprise environments are refreshing out of PC cycle replacement to thin client devices or serving the desktop to existing devices. Larry Ellison (1998) - the PC is a ridiculous device.
VDI pipeline in last two years grown from $50M to $300M and sunray shipments also linear growth. Oranisations wanting to install multiple thousands. Talking about $300 per desktop is the kind of figure.
Carsten Thalheimer Sr Solutions Architect xVM. Lots of stuff happening in the desktop virtualisation roadmap - SunRay software 5, SunRay 2FS, SUN VDI 3, Sun xVM (virtualbox 2.2). They claim to have sorted out the multimedia quality problem but youtube etc delivered as flash is still a problem until 5 (Summer 2009) already available to evaluate. If you want to synch to outlook etc then USB redirection will also be supported (for XP and Vista only to begin with). A new sunray hardware supporting Gbit ethernet, USB 2 ports and higher resolution to allow 2 monitors to attach if you wish. SUN VDI 3.0 Sun Storage 7000 support, LDAP integration - and the key thing is you can do the whole thing without VMWare but you can also use them in conjunction with one another - also providing a migration path? SGD another major release has new component called Secure Gateway - this sounds like it will improve secure access into the data centre servers and this is also available for evaluation carsten.thalheimer@sun.com. Using the TCO tool is important when looking at this stuff - it's not about the cost of the client.
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