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How can Sun Identity complement Sun's Desktop Virtualization solution?

Desktop Virtualization is a hot topic, as is Identity Management. Where is the intersection of these two technology streams, what does it look like, what benefits does it bring?

Driven by a customer demand back in 2007 we started to look into how we could complement a Desktop delivery system using Suns Secure Global Desktop (SGD). We rocked that proof of concept and the customer (a telco who had outsourced their developers) bought into the Sun vision and products after seeing how we could provide user and application lifecycle functions with Suns Identity Management (IdM) stack including Single Sign On, Directory Services and Provisioning.

Here we are close to the end of 2008 and again we're working with IdM and Virtualization, this time with the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, VDI for short, solution stack from Sun.   As a newbie to Desktop Virtualization I've really enjoyed learning how the pieces fit together and seeing how this solution can help solve customers problems, today in this economic climate more than ever.   I started to see first hand back in Nov 2007 using IdM and SGD on a customer deal how much IdM complements the virtualization stack and how valuable Suns Desktop and Application delivery technology can be for our customers.

If you're interested in Desktop Virtualization and haven't yet seen the benefits of Suns VDI stack I'd recommend checking out this very 'short and to the point' video on Suns website, here's the link top 10 benefits of Sun VDI.

Once our VDI&IdM demonstrator is ready I'll update the blog with details on the use-case and how we showed integration. 

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