Now my turn:
1. Stateless. Log in to your session on a Sun Ray, then take a sledge
hammer
and destroy the DTU. Go to your equipment storeroom and plug in another
DTU and you're back to where you were with no lost work.
Now, try #1 with one of the other "thin clients" that run a state-full
OS on
the box.
mike
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Paul Whitener wrote:
My turn! :0)
All the other stuff already stated plus:
NO maintenance on appliance. It either works or it doesn't
Firmware upgrades pushed from server
No OS on appliance
No OS "pushed" to appliance
built in VPN capabilities
USB support
session continues to run when card pulled
"soft" Sun Ray coming out
great interface to VDI/SGD
SECURITY (worth saying 10 more times!)
power failure does NOT crash your programs that are running
and the list goes on.......
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Cornelia <[email protected]>
Sent: Oct 26, 2009 3:14 PM
To: SunRay-Users mailing list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Why Sun Rays?
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Mike Cornelia <[email protected]
> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Wouter Coppens <[email protected]>
wrote:
All,
Last week, we had a demo of the upcoming VMware View. One of the
most interesting features is the PCoIP (PC over IP) protocol.
It’s a protocol especially designed for multimedia and works over
low bandwidth and high latency networks.
After the demo there was the question: in a VDI environment, why
should you still use Sun Rays?
We always proposed Sun Rays for it’s easy management and it works
on low bandwidth and high latency networks. The last points are
not really an advantage any more.
What are other Sun Ray users thinking?
Regards,
Wouter
Hmmmm . . . Let's see . . . not familiar with PCoIP but I'll
take a stab at it:
* Ease of management (as you stated)
* Only 4watts of power - so very "green"
* No moving parts like fans & HDD, so less to break
* Desktop PC still runs an OS and therefore is susceptible to
Malware,
viruses, etc. (back to ease of management)
What about security? Is a Sun ray more secure? Am I on the right
track?
Mike
Almost forgot - we really like the smartcard hotdesking. Works well
for security enhancement and convenience (not to mention the "wow"
factor).
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