The optimization of secure desktop virtualization provided by Sun: Why Thin Clients Aren't Interesting, What We Learned from TV, What Customers Ask For, Case Study, and Other options.

"This is really about enterprise business strategies…When we move them away from the end user device and back into the enterprise, we increase uptime, performance, control and security around those enterprise assets."

The Sun Ultra 24 Workstation by Intel with the Core 2 Duo E7200 Processor that is XATO compliant, with its 1TB disk drive, provides storage for increasingly larger data sets. It broadens the processor speed offerings and price points for the Sun Ultra 24 Workstation.

In a blog Daniel Cifuentes developed a script that he coined “A USB Drive daemon for Sun Ray Sessions (V2)”. Cifuentes was hoping to capture the reader interested in better presenting USB disks via the Sun Ray platform, or users of version one, which Daniel previously blogged. The first version allows users to see thumb drives and other drives attached to Sun Ray on JDS/CDE/Windows. The new version of this implementation includes many more features.

ZDnet columnist Paul Murphy looks at the cost of acquiring 1000 desk top systems in a recent blog post, “Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel“. He compares the Sun Ray thin client to a popular low-cost Dell desk top and concludes that the hardware costs are lower for the Sun Ray solution.

However, the big savings are in the lower costs of administration and the lower power consumption (8 watts + screen for Sun Ray vs 180 watts + screen for Dell Optiflex 755).

If you are interested in running the Mac OS or Windows on Sun Ray clients, then give VirtualBox a try, suggests the Chinese Functional CA Team blog, which takes readers through the steps of having Windows XP run on a Sun Ray client.