Sun Secure Global Desktop - Latest Features

Latest Features

• Since version 4.5, SGD provides SGD Gateway. This allows clients to access the infrastructure in a different physical network. The SGD Gateway splits the traffic.

• SGD integration into the GNOME Launch Menu and Windows clients' Start Menu; clients can connect to an SGD server when they log into their client automatically, without the need to open up a browser. Desktop icons can be created to start applications via SGD without the user being aware of SGD's presence.

• Significantly improved bandwidth utilization and screen rendering, making it considerably faster than the previous version. The screen rendering engine has been rewritten from scratch to be made more bandwidth aware and efficient and also to increase rendering performance of the desktop applications. Sun reports 30% faster screen rendering and 80% improvement of bandwidth efficiency.

• LDAP and Active Directory supported as login authority sources, multiple LDAP/ADs can be configured

• Seamless Windows support

• Support for Client Drive Mapping and Local Printer Mapping

• Support for serial port forwarding

• Oracle Secure Global Desktop Software runs on Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86), Solaris 9 and 8 (SPARC only), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5(x86 32-bit). Oracle Enterprise Linux

• The November 2007 release of version 4.4 most notably introduced a web-based Management Console that replaced the Java-based Object Manager and Array Manager tools that were first introduced in version 3.0.