Oracle Releases Sun Ray Software 5

News Facts

• Demonstrating its commitment to provide a comprehensive
  desktop virtualization portfolio, Oracle announced the latest Sun Ray Software 5 update.
• Sun Ray Software 5 is a secure, cost-effective solution
  that delivers a rich virtual desktop experience to customers using Oracle’s Sun
  Ray Clients or traditional PCs.
• New features include support for Oracle
  Enterprise Linux, an enhanced virtual desktop client, and a Sun Ray
  connector for VMware View 4.
• The new features offer increased efficiency, broader
  support for heterogeneous environments, improved ease-of-use, enhanced user
  experience and help lower total cost of ownership.
• The Sun Ray Software 5 update is the latest enhancement
  to Oracle’s virtualization portfolio; the industry’s most complete
  desktop-to-datacenter virtualization.
• With Oracle
  virtualization, customers can efficiently and easily virtualize and manage
  their full software and hardware stack, from applications to disk.
• The Sun Ray Software 5 update can be downloaded at: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/061984.html. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

Administrators and End Users Benefit from Broader Support of Heterogeneous
Environments, Greater Efficiency, Access and Ease-of-Use

• Sun Ray Software 5 provides a comprehensive Oracle-based
  virtualization solution that easily integrates with popular third-party
  technologies like Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Active Directory, Red Hat
  Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware View.
• This broad support for heterogeneous environments is
  unique to Oracle’s desktop virtualization solutions and offers customers
  enhanced flexibility and investment protection.
• New features in the Sun Ray Software 5 update
  include:
• Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux – enables
  customers to choose among Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise
  Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as their server platform to deploy Sun Ray
  Software;
• Enhanced virtual desktop client – installs on existing
  PCs and allows them to be used as an alternative to a dedicated Sun Ray Client
  device. This enables organizations to quickly experience many of the benefits of
  the Sun Ray solution, using their existing desktops. New in this release is
  support for Mac OS X computers, in addition to existing support for Windows XP,
  Windows Vista, and Windows 7;
• Greater mobility – with the enhanced virtual desktop
  client, customers can now use smart card readers on supported PCs to “hotdesk”
  desktop sessions between PCs and dedicated Sun Ray Clients. “Hotdesking” allows
  users instant access to their desktop sessions simply by inserting a smart card
  into a Sun Ray Client or a PC with a smart card reader;
• Sun Ray connector for VMware View 4 – allows Sun Ray
  Clients to be used as a client with the VMware View 4 virtual desktop
  infrastructure product;
• Enhanced multimedia with bidirectional audio
  capabilities – improves the user experience with Windows applications.

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