Oracle's Sun Ray 3 Series Clients garnered the 2011 GOOD DESIGN Award given annually for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality. With no moving parts and no local operating system to manage, Oracle Sun Ray 3 Series Clients reduce many of the problems associated with desktop deployments by providing a cost-effective, highly functional thin client alternative to desktop and laptop computers. Part of Oracle's comprehensive desktop virtualization portfolio, the Oracle Sun Ray 3 Series Clients offer ease of administration, higher security, and better access than traditional desktop architectures.
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On Jaap's VDI Blog Space readers will find a link to the new technical guide for all three Sun Ray clients: Sun Ray 3, Sun Ray 3 plus, and Sun Ray 3i. The online documentation provides detailed information about the similarities and differences between the three Sun Ray client hardware models. The "Sun Ray 3 Series Clients Product Guide" lists the features and technical specifications of the Sun Ray Client such as number of ports, chassis, graphics, network interfaces, power supply, operating conditions, MTBF, reliability, and other standards. The guide also contains a separate chapter about environmental data.
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"The Exo-Friendly Enterprise with Oracle Desktop Virtualization," a blog by Chris Kawalek, reports that three of the winners at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 of the annual Oracle Eco-Enterprise Innovation Awards used Oracle desktop virtualization in their enterprise. These organizations are:
Denver Health Hospital
Gunsan City Hall
Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen universitat Munchen
Kawalek notes that the use of Oracle desktop virtualization by these three winning organizations conclusively demonstrates the ecological benefits of desktop virtualization and thin client computing.
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Klaus Ruehl helpfully summarizes Sun Ray architecture into a single page overview and then proceeds to a discussion of how that architecture is used to serve Unix-based desktops. Since most end-users actually want a Windows desktop and typically do not want to get in touch with any different operating system, however, part 2 of Ruehl's article series will explain how to connect Sun Ray clients with the Windows world.
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In the Webcast "How Oracle uses oracle Desktop Virtualization" Product Management Director Mohan Prabhala explains how Oracle leverages the products in its portfolio, including Oracle Sun Ray Clients, Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Oracle Secure Global Desktop, and Oracle VM VirtualBox, to solve challenges in several internal deployments. The video explains that Oracle's desktop virtualization portfolio comprises a number of technologies that can help reduce TCO, increase security, and provide more flexibility over traditional desktop architectures. Viewers will learn how Oracle desktop virtualization helps Oracle to:
Provide access to CRM applications from nearly any device
Support thousands of developers around the world with secure, centralized development environments
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