Thin Client Industry Analysis

Legacy desktop infrastructure makes it difficult for organizations to comply with everchanging
regulatory, application, and security requirements. Sun Ray™ Software provides
an affordable, secure, and flexible solution for any organization that wants rich desktop
functionality without PC complexity and vulnerability.
Sun has always believed that "The Network is the Computer™", and our desktop software infrastructure
products are designed around this guiding principle, helping organizations to deploy more
agile and secure desktop solutions. Sun's desktop infrastructure software focuses on centralization
of applications and data, so that organizations can provide secure enterprise computing solutions,
not personal computing (PC) solutions.
Unique Sun Ray™ Software architecture
The unique Sun Ray Software architecture
removes management of complex PC or
embedded OS thin clients from the desktop
equation by offering a complete virtual desktop.
The architecture consists of two parts: Sun
Ray Virtual Display Clients and Sun Ray Software.
The environmentally friendly Virtual
Display Client is a low-cost device that, when
plugged into the network, delivers a secure,
network desktop. Sun Ray Software has three
core components: Sun Ray Server Software,
Sun Ray Connector for Windows, and Sun™
Desktop Manager.
Sun Ray Server Software
Acts as a broadcaster, delivering customized
content to each Sun Ray client on the network.
Channel 1 might be Microsoft Windows,
Channel 2 might be Linux, and Channel 3 might
be the Solaris OS. It provides user authentication
and encryption between server and client,
as well as user session management. This not
only enhances security, but also helps reduce
complexity and administration of the IT environment.
Sun Ray Server Software provides
automatic load balancing, optimizing performance
by distributing sessions across servers in
the group. Load balancing takes into account
each server's load and capacity —... [continues]

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