VDI joint-venture: Sun and Ringcube integrate desktop virtualization stuff

By PrasenJit Sarkar at 29 June, 2009, 11:20 am

Sun’s SunRay technology is pretty cool and is definitely the best stuff to look at, after all Sun has been using it for a long time for its corporate employees.

The partnership will bring to enterprises that are using Sun’s Sun Ray VDI technology the ability to more effectively and cheaply roll out personalized virtual desktops, let users work offline and synchronize their VDI environment and portable storage devices, PCs or laptops.

It combines the Appliance Link Protocol—for deploying VDI environments over WANs—in Sun Rays with RingCube’s vDesk, according to Doug Dooley, vice president of product management and marketing at RingCube.

“Our combined solution provides enterprise customers with mobile work forces the benefits of personalized desktops and offline mobility in their VDI deployments with lower operational and capital expenditures,” Dooley said in a statement.

RingCube’s vDesk enables enterprise users to put the technology on their work PCs or on unmanaged systems, such as their home computers. When they turn on vDesk, it gives them a personalized virtual workspace—including their own settings, files, applications and desktop—and the company’s MobileSync technology lets users synchronize their vDesk workspace between PCs, USB drives or other portable media, a network file share or VDI environments.