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Slow performance using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in VMware View Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Oracle JInitiator Java 1.3 application

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Today I had a very weird issue with the RDP protocol within a VMware View Virtual Desktop environment. When connecting to a logged off virtual desktop using a View Client or even directly with mstsc.exe one single Java application had a really bad performance. Especially keystrokes were delayed enormous.
After disconnect and reconnect to the same [...]

New release of Oracle’s Sun Ray Software version 5 available now

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Sun Ray Software 5 provides a comprehensive Oracle-based virtualization solution that easily integrates with popular third-party technologies like Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Active Directory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware View. This broad support for heterogeneous environments is unique to Oracle’s desktop virtualization solutions and offers customers enhanced flexibility and investment [...]

Windows XP Logon Screen Saver in VDI disturbed Single-Sign-On (SSO)

Friday, May 7th, 2010

When you are using Windows XP desktops within a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) lots of desktops are often provisioned and started a long time before they will be actually connected to a user. By default, if you do not press a key for 10 minutes, the Windows logon screen saver (Logon.scr) starts. This behavior disturbed [...]

Oracle introduces the new Sun Ray 3 Plus Client

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Oracle’s Sun Ray Clients are simple, low-cost devices that are ideal for displaying server-hosted virtual desktops. With no moving parts and no local operating system to manage, Sun Ray Clients provide a cost-effective, highly functional thin client alternative to desktop and laptop computers and reduce many of the problems associated with traditional desktop deployments.
  Sun [...]

Sun Ray Software 5 released today

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Sun Ray Software 5 is a secure, cost effective solution that delivers a rich, virtual Windows, Linux or Solaris OS desktop to Sun Ray thin clients and Sun Desktop Access Client enabled PCs.
A major benefit for new and existing customers of Sun Ray Software is the new Sun Desktop Access Client. This new software [...]

Sun Ray certified for VMware View 3.1.1

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Today Matthias Müller-Prove, User Experience Architect at Sun Microsystems, announced on the vmworld.com blog that Sun Ray is certified again for VMware View.

“Sun Ray 2, Sun Ray 2FS, and the Sun Ray 270, together with the Sun Ray Connector for VMware View Manager 1.1, are once again certified for VMware View. The latest tests [...]

Sun Ray introduction at Ictivity Training

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Sun Ray, a small device with only firmware and consume as little as 4 watts of power. That is a real Thin Client because there is no Operating System on it, it is just firmware!

Although that is a nice idea it is much greater to know what you can do with [...]