A SUN Partner acceleris based in Switzerland - small team of 30. A poor man's VDI solution is at the heart of this session. An open source product called xVM VirtualBox - one of the things it allows you to do is run a variety of desktop operating systems on the same desktop. They also use Sun Global Desktop (SGD) to provide secure remote management to the Data Centre operations - either via internal network or also using the remote capability. Also a neat session recording facility e.g. for access by a third party company or external company played as a movie.
Couple of open source things provided - scripts and cookbooks on the net - type "Poor Man's VDI" into google (Tim Ebbers?). Will not work for large installations (not defined but not thousands targeted this at Schools initially). Avoids need for VMWare licences. SunVD Software and Virtual Box running on a small server (ultra?) is what you need. Simple and cost effective for proof of concept also. Future product is Xvm VDI 3.0 which seems to now incorporate these ideas - also open source - this is on general release next week.
A company called Cards Group based out of Eindhoven, Nederland. Another smaller company of 40+ in Benelux. What they are doing is building secure portals for clients. An example: scholingsboulevard.nl. This is how they use SGD and Sunray (500 seats currently). Very fast and powerful and key thing - students get it at home. Solution for when you want to deploy lots of seats - storage is key issue - so virtual storage becomes the problem, and massively compress (80%) reduction in storage. Project Virtual Storm. Virtual Storm uses 1.2GB per image. Rolling this out for multi-national client. Lots of interesting eduational clients in the Netherlands. Primary, Secondary and Universities. Primary is real challenge as they use up to 800 applications and many of them are highly graphical/multimedia etc. They have solved the problems ref streaming/video etc? 12k laptops running in the Regional Educational Centres - student chooses whatever laptop and whatever browser that they choose to buy using SGD.
EBOAT case study - 55 primary schools all on sunray no servers in the school. 3000+ clients, 90+ servers for Windows and Sunray.
Scholingsboulevard case study - 450+ clients moving to 8000 in next 3 years - gets rid of well trained parent or teacher to run this stuff - driver is desktop management and power consumption
Noorderpoortcollege case study - 1200 clients. They reckon a 250k Euro saving on power (50 Euro per unit)
other stuff from this company
Sunray power over Ethernet adaptor - saves a wall socket and also less cabling.
Sunray bracket mount - theft part reduced- to screw under desk or onto wall
Interactive kiosk - stainless steel structure with trackball - price is 3k versus 10k per unit - also put SGD on it
Sunray portable - all kinds of flavours - no disk, no memory etc - also working in smartphone device Big trends is to get mobile environment (Board Room?)
Also Mitel ip phones and cisco link to the card
Painted the sunray high gloss white with client logo! reduces theft completely?
USB Device Server - in particular digital smart boards - connecting up to 15 different USB devices.
SunRay biometrics for physical entry control (partner secugen) - finger or thumb log on
Hot Desk printing - walk to a printer connected to a sunray and then it is sent to print (also very secure and multi site).
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