Early Access to Sun Ray Connector for VMWare Virtual Desktop Manager

Head over to Matthias Müller-Prove's blog and check out our latest collaborative effort with VMWare in the VDI Space and the link to download it. Enjoy!

News item from Think Thin on August 12, 2008.

An early piece of Sun Ray history

    If you follow my personal blog, you probably know that I am planning to move, hopefully by the end of the year, and that I have accumulated way too much 'junk' since even before moving into this large house 12.5 years ago. I...

News item from Think Thin on May 22, 2008.

Just Released - Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 2.0

     Hot off the presses is Sun's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 2.0, just released last night. Included is the new Sun Virtual Desktop Connector, acting as a broker between Sun Ray and Secure Global Desktop...

News item from Think Thin on March 18, 2008.

Point and Shoot VDI

Certainly the most feature rich method to deliver VDI is through the use of a "broker" like the Sun Virtual Desktop Connector. This broker is then connected to VMWare Virtual Center and the combination of the two gives the environment all...

News item from Think Thin on March 16, 2008.

Kiosk Mode Browser

A few folks have been trying to get a Kiosk mode browser working. Whether for an actual "Kiosk" or for access to a web based application, this can be rather handy. I thought that I'd post how I've been doing it lately. A kiosk web browser...

News item from Think Thin on March 07, 2008.

Understanding the Virtual Desktop Lifecycle - Part 2

Found some time this week, so here is the next part.Dirk

News item from Think Thin on February 22, 2008.

Understanding the Virtual Desktop Lifecycle

If you ever wanted to understand, how desktop virtualization (VDI) can help you to automate the process of maintaining the desktop lifecycle, you will find some answers here. This is the first blog entry on the topic of desktop lifecycle management...

News item from Think Thin on February 11, 2008.

Microsoft makes changes to benefit Vista Virutalization

Microsoft reversed it's previous decision preventing the less expensive versions of Vista from being licensed for virtualization.You may now run Visa Home Basic and Vista Home Premium in a virtualized environment. The other bit of good news...

News item from Think Thin on January 21, 2008.

VMware Customization Specifications - Power management settings

Today I was working on my  Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0 Beta that I have deployed on my development server, looking at different template settings and Customization Specifications. One of the features of the Sun VDC...

News item from Think Thin on December 08, 2007.

Managing Open Desktops now open.

 Sun's APOC (A Point of Control) is now officially Open Source, dual licensed under  CDDL/GPLv2.  What is APOC?  Well, for those of you that have longed for a Active Directory like tool to help deploy 'nix desktops, APOC is that...

News item from Think Thin on December 04, 2007.