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, Nev. 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 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
Connector for VMware Virtual Desktop Manager, an add-on component of
Sun Ray 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 , 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 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, 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 visitwww.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" -- 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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