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Adaptive Internet Protocol is the Key

The Sun white paper “Sun Secure Global Desktop Software: The Adaptive Internet Protocol (AIP)” characterizes the subject software as designed to provide optimal performance over complex network routes with varying bandwidths, employing heuristics to determine the type of device and network connection used and using these parameters to dynamically adapt and optimize performance.

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Solutions Accommodate Growth, Improve Service Delivery

Monmouth Independence Network (MINET) is a public utility that delivers voice, data and cable services to 3,500 customers in the cities of Monmouth and Independence, Oregon, using Sun technologies. Faced with the need to expand services while minimizing costs, providing for high performance and availability and scaling to support rapid growth, MINET looked to Sun for the servers, unified storage, flash memory, thin clients, and virtualization necessary to meet these business needs.

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Hands-on, Instructor-led Training Introduces VDI 3 Technology, Software Administration

Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3 Implementation Workshop (VM-450) is a five-day workshop that introduces Sun’s VDI technology and software administration. Along with installing Sun VDI Software 3, individuals signing up for the Sun training course will be introduced to the architectural details of the software, as well as VDI components and features such as Sun xVM VirtualBox and VMware Virtual Center desktop brokers.

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Sun Storage and Servers Support Hosted Infrastructure Virtual BackOffice

Virtual BackOffice is a virtual IT infrastructure that is highly scalable and available. Created by Merkl IT, this solution gives customers access to their data and applications from almost any location with very little hardware required onsite. When Merkl IT began working on what has now become its core product a few years ago, the company knew that it needed hardware that would help provide high resiliency, scalability and fast response times for its customers. Although it considered other products, the company decided to rely on several Sun products for its solution.

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Saint Paul College Reduces Costs 70% with Sun Solutions

Minnesota’s Saint Paul College plans on implementing a textbook-free curriculum beginning this fall semester, and will offer some courses using Sun’s Project Wonderland, a Java and open-source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds, as part of an immersive virtual reality teaching project. The text-free curriculum was an easy decision for the the two-year technical college that has offered students access to the computer resources they needed anytime, anywhere, from any computer with Sun Ray 1 clients for 10 years.

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White Paper Informs Readers About Features, Use

Get to know the Sun Secure Global Desktop Software in a relatively new white paper that presents an overview of the product. The May 2009 PDF covers the software’s architecture, client support, Adaptive Internet Protocol (AIP), administration and management tools, application connectivity, the server array, authentication, security, load balancing, printing, client drive mapping, copy and paste, session management and Webtop. In June, Sun released Version 4.5 of its access solution that now enables the deployment of applications on servers rather than clients, and provides the ability to manage and deliver access to Windows, Linux, Solaris, AS/400 and Mainframe systems from a single PC.

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Multiple New Features Add New Level of Security, More Flexibility and Mobility

Sun Secure Global Desktop (SGD) Software 4.5 is now available. This latest release introduces an innovative level of security when accessing data and applications with the new Secure Gateway, which allows users to move the SGD server out of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and into the confines of the corporate firewall. It also adds new failover mechanisms that ensure consistent data availability, enhances device mapping, making it even easier to configure devices for large deployments, and adds native support for Novell eDirectory services.

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