Sun VDI 2.0 Offers Anywhere, Anyhow Desktops

Sun's rapid move to v2.0 brings a new Virtual Desktop Connector hoping to serve as a "universal translator" for many-to-any desktop delivery.

Joe Hernick, IT Director

March 17, 2008

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Sun's rapid move to v2.0 brings a new Virtual Desktop Connector hoping to serve as a "universal translator" for many-to-any desktop delivery.October doesn't seem like that long ago. That's when Sun delivered v1.0 of the company's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) as another path for delivering VMs to the desktop. There have been no incremental updates as the dev team has been working hard on this major release.

I met with Sun for a preannounce briefing last week.

"People are embracing VDI architectures for their desktop deployments, but they share the same sorts of concerns -- things like security, performance over the network, and manageability. The new version of the product... lets you securely access almost any OS from nearly anywhere, and for the administrator, it provides a centralized point of control to manage it all." -- Chris Kawalak, speaking for Sun.

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Joe Hernick

Joe Hernick

IT Director

Joe Hernick is in his seventh year as director of academic technology at Suffield Academy, where he teaches, sits on the Academic Committee, provides faculty training and is a general proponent of information literacy. He was formerly the director of IT and computer studies chair at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT, and spent 10 years in the insurance industry as a director and program manager at CIGNA.

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