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Sunday September 18, 2005

Locked by applications I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday. He told be about a problem he is facing now. He is a IT manager in a local ship building company. These is a department of about 200 people doing design work on CAD-CAM on PC. The problem he has is how to enforce security. There been report that people "leak" out design works, via copying thru the PC. He ask me how we can help him. The first thing I can think of is our SunRay product, it is a dump graphic terminal, no harddisk. The network, USB port, the access right, can be central controlled. Which PC Windown can't do that. Look like a very suitable solution to him. But, his CAD-CAM application don't run on UNIX. IT only run on Windows. Now, he start to see how he is being lock down by Windows. (2005-09-18 22:13:24.0) Permalink Comments [5]

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Even though the application doesn't run on Solaris or Linux a SunRay can still be part of the overall solution. Especially if you consider Sun's Tarantella product line. Even before the aquisition of Trantellea Sun was deploying SunRay into sites to serve up Microsoft Windows desktops. This is a solution that works even with Sun's Trusted Solaris product, giving multi level access to different Microsoft Windows systems. A solution based on SunRay, Trusted Solaris and Windows is in use by various US government departments.

Posted by Darren Moffat on September 19, 2005 at 06:26 AM PDT #

Nathan, just bring him to iForce. You will see Windows in a full screen in SunRay. Users don't even know there is Solaris at all.

Posted by Iwan Rahabok on October 16, 2005 at 04:11 AM PDT #

Hi Nathan: How are you? I found your blog thru Google. At least I hope this is the Nathan Phan I know from U of Manitoba. I lost your e-mail address or you have changed it. I just tried another I found, so I hope that one works. It would be good to hear from you. Are you now married? Nuke Shim

Posted by Nuke Shim on December 10, 2005 at 08:03 AM PST #

Nathan, Of course, there are solutions for your friend to lock down use access to protect the company IP. I think your friend needs to bring in his security engineer to evaluate the situation and recommend a proper solution. Or Ask him to take a look at http://www.protect-me.com

Posted by Trung Nguyen on August 06, 2006 at 06:11 PM PDT #

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Posted by nathan on August 02, 2008 at 02:04 PM PDT #

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