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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

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Thursday Oct 02, 2008

Sun Secure Global Desktop and OpenSSO Integration

A close colleague of mind, Joachim Andres , myself and Andy Hall worked together on a customer project to setup web SSO integration using OpenSSO with Sun Secure Global Desktop. This work we did is a great example of the use of policy agents with existing applications and using trusted authentication mode with SGD (with Directory Services Integration configured for SGD in the background). The policy agent sets the REMOTE_USER server variable and SGD is configured to pick that up rather than use its own login page. With that, and a tweak to SGD's logout logic to send the browser to OpenSSO's logout page, we have a very neat integration. Download the document that Joachim wrote here

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