The newest version of Sun RayTM Software, 4 10/06, is now available for download. Version 4 10/06 brings support for new Linux distributions and updated support for Session Directory when using Windows Terminal Services with the Sun Ray Connector for Windows. The new features give customers greater flexibility in installation and configuration.

New Features

• The Sun Ray Connector for Windows provides a more secure, mobile Windows desktop experience. It enables direct connection to Windows Terminal Services and can be used to provide a full-screen Windows desktop or provide access to specific Windows applications on a Solaris or Linux desktop. (Access local peripherals, cut and paste between applications on different operating systems, and smart card authenticate to Windows applications).

• Support has been added for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9, now with both 32 and 64-bit support. Mass storage for Linux for the new Linux platforms is also supported (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9).

Sun Ray Software 4 also provides the choice of using the SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) for x86 or SPARC servers. The Sun Desktop Manager component of Sun Ray Software 4 is supported only on Solaris 10 (on either SPARC or x86 servers).

• Peripheral support has been expanded, enabling use of USB memory sticks, external USB hard drives, USB zip disks with Sun Ray clients with either the Solaris OS, Linux OS or full-screen Windows.

• The bandwidth requirements are now lower: they have dropped to 300Kbps. When bandwidth is constrained, the rendering protocol is adaptive and will use aggressive compression techniques; when not constrained, it will leverage the available bandwidth.

Other features of the software include regional hot desking. This expands hot desking to a multi-group level. When an administrator enables Regional Hot Desking, users can roam between physical locations and hot desk to the same virtual desktop session.

Sun Ray Software includes built-in and automatic management of the client device. Each time the Sun Ray virtual display client establishes a new connection with a Sun Ray server it verifies that the client is running the latest firmware and updates automatically if needed.

A privacy mode function is available so that traffic can be encrypted between the Sun Ray Server and the Sun Ray thin client regardless of the network. This blocks packet sniffing and snooping software from being inserted into a network.

For details on business benefits of Sun Ray deployments, see the Forrester Research Total Economic Impact Study.

New to Sun Ray Technology?

The unique Sun Ray Software architecture eliminates the complexity of PC management by offering a compute model similar to television.

No one ever thinks about management of a TV set -- you simply plug it in and tune it to the channel you want. There are no patches to apply to a TV (as with a PC), no need to run virus scans and checks, and you don't worry about how much CPU or RAM it has. A TV will last far longer than 3 years (average for a PC).

All the content of TV entertainment comes from the central network and broadcasters. With a Sun Ray solution, the content (either a Windows, Linux or Solaris OS desktop) is delivered via the central enterprise data center.

Imagine: a low-cost device that acts just like a TV when you plug it in.

Try and Buy

Customers may download a trial of Sun Ray Software 4 for 90 days without purchasing right-to-use licenses.

Download

To download, learn more about system requirements and licensing information see the Sun web site.

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