SUN Conference Day Three - King's College London

Lynne Tucker Chief Technology Officer - what they are doing around Sunray technologies. Vision - to deliver a web-enabled access to all students and professional services staff (in first instance academic staff later). Using a mutli-sourced partnered approach if its "commodity computing". E-mail, sharepoint etc and also global desktop and also because data centre capability is poor looking to get others to run the servers too. Partnered with Getronics fo deliver the global desktop. The infrastructure is connected via JANET which is a first. One of the data centres is in Manchester, and the other is in the Midlands. Two of everything 25 terminal servers in each centre and 10 sgd servers in each (to manage 3500 concurrent desktops ultimately currently only 100). They have 350 applications (but lots of others they won't do for the moment). They don't have sunrays so using the existing PC stock to make this work on the desktop. Lots of cultural challenges - so now you want me to work at home? so you want me to hotdesk? I have some specialist stuff? strategy is to leave old PCs to die gracefully, move everyone to networked printing, access to new and shared filestore. Live demo! Personalised the SGD screen to make it Kings. "for us...it is going to revolutionalise the way we work". Students regard this as real added value service. Really interesting presentation.