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Tuesday Jan 20, 2009

Sun IdM & Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Demonstrator

So I finally got around to encoding and uploading this video that shows in about 10 minutes how the Sun Identity Management suite can complement the Sun VDI product. The products used in this demon included the following (in no particular order)

Our goal (Joachim Andres and I) was to show how Sun are uniquely placed to provide the whole stack from the operating system, smartcards, SunRay thin client device, through to the desktop delivery mechanism including the actual virtualised image and to top it all off a splash of Identity Management (IdM) in the form of Single Sign On and Provisioning services.

The benefits of the Sun Virtual Desktop solution are so many it's hard to actually express it clearly I keep fumbling :-) I truly believe that this market is huge and one hopes that Sun and their partners can make significant progress helping our customers implement desktop virtualization. I'm not going to list all the benefits of Sun VDI and the supporting software stack above, I'll let the VDI product manager explain in person here

Remember, your desktop is not your PC or Mac, it's where you get your work done !  The desktop can be delivered independent of the actual physical device you're using, that's the whole point, use the internet to get your work done wherever you may be and whatever device you may be using.

Hope you find the demo useful, it actually includes several use-cases that I had to deliver to a Telco in the UK on a proof of concept, so these are real customer driven use-cases. Here's the demo link



Comments[7]

Comments:

Hey Paul & Jo - NICE video - love the soundtrack!!!

BTW - the product name is Sun OpenSSO Enterprise, and the product link (as opposed to the open source project link) is http://www.sun.com/software/products/opensso_enterprise/

Posted by Pat Patterson on January 20, 2009 at 07:57 PM CET #

This is very very cool! really nice work!
Ezra.

Posted by Ezra Simeloff on January 20, 2009 at 08:28 PM CET #

Hey Pat, thanks for the kind words, I've updated the link and the product name.. oops! ;)

Posted by Paul Walker on January 20, 2009 at 10:06 PM CET #

Very nice!!
If you can ,please share installation,deployment, configuration info which need to create this nice demo :)

Posted by kimimasa on January 21, 2009 at 11:19 AM CET #

Hello Kimimasa,

Unfortunately for non-Sun employees it won't be possible *right now* since we used an Early Access release of the upcoming Sun VDI version 3. There is a very good cookbook provided by the Sun VDI engineering team on how to setup VDI and the associated SunRay and VirtualBox software components, I would *expect* that to get published at some point on wikis.sun.com for example. I can certainly share what we did for the OpenSSO and Identity Manager configuration but without the VDI3 pieces (which are not available *yet*) it ain't gonna work. Ping me paul.walker@sun.com to discuss the OpenSSO and Identity Manager pieces if you are interested. I know it's not a great answer but it's the best I can provide right now.

Posted by Paul Walker on January 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM CET #

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your response.
I understood.

if i need detailed info about how to integrate VDI and IDM and OpenSSO,I will contact you.

Sun is only vendor who have VDI and IdM Software.
So, I think the integration of VDI and IDM are very competitive futures.

Thanks again.

Posted by kimimasa on January 26, 2009 at 04:01 AM CET #

BTW, a document that Joachim and I did that explains how to integrate OpenSSO with Secure Global Desktop can be found here, https://opensso.dev.java.net/files/documents/3676/112554/SecureGlobalDesktop-OpenSSO-Integration.pdf

Posted by Paul Walker on January 26, 2009 at 08:06 AM CET #

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