Sun Microsystems and VMware Expand Desktop Virtualization
Relationship By Offering VMware Virtual Desktop Manager With Sun Ray
Thin Clients
Customers to Benefit From Increased Flexibility, Energy Efficiency
and Choice for Virtual Desktop Deployments
LAS VEGAS (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) September 16, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the company will
add VMware Virtual Desktop Manager and VMware Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI) to its line up of fully supported desktop
virtualization solutions Sun offers to customers. As part of an expanded
relationship between Sun and VMware, the new offerings from Sun bring
more choice to Sun Ray(TM) thin client customers who now have the
flexibility to select either the Sun Virtual Desktop Connector, a
component of Sun VDI Software, or VMware Virtual Desktop Manager as
their preferred connection broker for virtual desktop deployments. Sun
will make VMware VDI and VMware Virtual Desktop Manager, along with
support services for the products, available to customers via the Sun
price list later this month. More information on the Sun Ray family of
virtual display clients and software can be found at www.sun.com/sunray.
In addition to offering VMware VDI and VMware Virtual Desktop Manager,
Sun Ray virtual display clients are now VMware Ready Certified for
VMware VDI. The certification signifies that Sun Ray thin clients have
passed VMware's testing criteria for interoperability and consistent
quality performance when deployed in conjunction with VMware VDI and
Virtual Desktop Manager. This is made possible through the new Sun
Ray(TM) Connector for VMware Virtual Desktop Manager, an add-on
component of Sun Ray(TM) Software, that provides tight integration and
allows a highly-secure connection between Sun Ray thin clients and
VMware Virtual Desktop Manager. With this joint solution, Sun Ray users
can access and display virtual desktops based on Windows XP
Professional, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
“Enabling choice for our desktop
virtualization customers is a paramount goal for Sun. Through our
relationship with VMware, we're able to better deliver to customers a
broad range of virtual desktop technologies that can be deployed to meet
their specific VDI needs,” said Bob Gianni,
senior director of desktop systems engineering at Sun. “Sun's
innovative and industry-proven Sun Ray technology combined with VMware's
popular, leading-edge Virtual Desktop Manager and VDI products offer a
powerful choice for customers seeking to take advantage of the
cost-savings, efficiency, and eco benefits of a thin client-based
virtual desktop deployment.”
“Sun Ray thin clients and software, which
feature Sun's high-performance Appliance Link Protocol(TM), are an
attractive choice for organizations that deploy VMware VDI and Virtual
Desktop Manager,” said Jerry Chen, senior
director of enterprise desktop at VMware. “Adding
the availability of VMware Virtual Desktop Manager with Sun Ray
technology combines two best-of-breed technologies to offer an
outstanding desktop virtualization solution for customers.”
Last year, SAP Netherlands moved its Educational Center to a new
building and Sun Ray played a key role. “We
wanted to ensure that we provided each student with their own system
while keeping cooling costs down. Using Sun Ray technology, as opposed
to traditional PCs, helped us to achieve this goal all while realizing
the additional benefits of reduced administration costs and the
increased efficiency and flexibility inherent to a thin client and
virtual desktop deployment,” said Jean Paul
Beerens, Expert Technical Support Consultant IT of SAP Netherlands. “Our
current architecture, which includes Sun Ray virtual display clients,
Sun Ray Server Software 4 running on the Solaris 10 Operating System,
and VMware ESX Server Software for hosting Windows XP Pro, fits our
needs perfectly. We're pleased to know that VMware and Sun are
continuing to work together to offer new solutions that will help us
improve our offering to students and meet new challenges.”
Sun Ray virtual display clients, Sun Ray Software and Sun VDI Software
are key components of Sun's broad desktop virtualization offering, which
are a set of core desktop technologies and solutions within the Sun(TM)
xVM virtualization portfolio. Sun Ray thin clients offer a longer device
life-cycle at a fraction of the cost and total power consumption of a
traditional desktop PC and allow customers to display their choice of
Solaris(TM), Windows or Linux virtual desktops.
Sun at VMworld 2008
Sun will showcase Sun Ray technology and its complete Sun xVM
virtualization portfolio, from desktop to datacenter, at VMworld 2008 in
Las Vegas, Sept. 15-19 in booth #1108. Sun will also lead two panels at
VMworld 2008 including a session featuring Sun's leading virtualization
experts on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 9 a.m. in the Titan conference room
(#2305). A second session, hosted by Sun and titled “Virtualizing
the Desktop”, will take place on Wednesday,
Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. at the Marcello room (#4502).
Sun offers a complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization product
portfolio and comprehensive set of virtualization service offerings to
help customers deploy new services faster, maximize the utilization of
system resources, and more easily monitor and manage virtualized
environments. Sun's virtualization products help to provide unified
software management tools and virtualization capabilities across
operating systems, servers, storage, desktops and processors. For more
information visit www.sun.com/xvm.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)" -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Sun Ray, Java, Appliance
Link Protocol and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in
the United States and other countries.
VMware, VMworld and VMware Ready are trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States
and/or other jurisdictions.
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