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Sun's Virtual Desktop & Display Computing enables you to reduce your desktop costs by up to 75% – while enabling users to move seamlessly from home to lecture theatre, department to library, and PC to Sun Ray … while maintaining the same ‘user session’. The Sun desktop infrastructure includes the Sun Ray ultra thin client display units and server-based Secure Global Desktop Software with the ability to virtualise your desktop and deliver it to any device, regardless of operating system, including Windows.

Our desktop solutions are affordable and straightforward to deploy – at any stage in your desktop lifecycle. Universities can adopt a step-by-step approach or implement a total solution to create a ‘digital campus’.

Sun invites you to try – without risk and disruption. The first step is to engage in a Desktop Efficiency Evaluation Workshop at no cost to discover how the Sun alternative desktop could reap rewards for you.

Sun Ray Ultra Thin Client Display Units
Next time you need to replace any of your PCs – consider Sun Ray. These robust display units are far simpler than desktop PCs, require zero troubleshooting, are significantly cheaper, last up to 7 years longer and use 95% less power.

Key benefits
  • The average PC lasts only 2-3 years. Sun Rays can continue operating as a state-of-the-art desktop for more than 9 years.
  • Sun Rays cost less, so you can afford more of them. Laptop versions are also available.
  • They create 90% less heat and produce no noise, improving teaching conditions.
  • They are more sustainable for the environment and use 95% less power – leading to sizeable savings in your fuel bills.
  • Sun Rays are easy to maintain. Software upgrades and management is carried out in your data centre removing the need to change hundreds or thousands of desktops when required.
  • They are secure and durable, with no moving parts and nothing stored locally to damage, break, get stolen or lost.

Secure Global Desktop Software - Virtualise Your Desktop
You can extend your university learning environment and provide total mobility for students, staff and researchers by introducing Sun’s Secure Global Desktop (SGD) Software to your servers. This enables the virtualisation of your desktop environment for delivery through a Java-enabled browser to any device, regardless of operating system.

Key benefits
  • Enable secure, remote access for everyone - from anywhere, at any time and from virtually any device.
  • Provide access across a wide range of desktops and devices via a Java-enabled browser with no other client software required.
  • Allow users to access applications as well as files remotely.
  • Centralise and share the key applications and services used by all faculties - without having to intrude on their own systems.
  • Adopt an ‘open standards framework’ that works with Windows and other platforms - without locking you into any proprietary technology.
  • Be secure. The military, police forces and banks use SGD.
  • SGD is excellent value for money and affordable through campus-wide licensing.