During VMworld 2007, Sun Microsystems, Inc. previewed its new software offering that helps to provide a more secure and manageable virtual desktop environment. Installed on the company's Solaris Operating System, Sun's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Sun VDI) Software 1.0 enables organizations to turn PCs into thin client devices by moving operating systems and applications off the desktops and mobile PCs and co During VMworld 2007, Sun Microsystems, Inc. previewed its new software offering that helps to provide a more secure and manageable virtual desktop environment. Installed on the company’s Solaris Operating System, Sun’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Sun VDI) Software 1.0 enables organizations to turn PCs into thin client devices by moving operating systems and applications off the desktops and mobile PCs and consolidating them in the datacenter.Sun VDI is a secure platform for accessing virtualized Microsoft Windows desktop environments from a variety of devices. When combined with VMware Infrastructure software, Sun VDI consolidates desktops onto servers in the datacenter giving each user a dedicated and isolated virtual machine that is customized to their needs.According to Sun, each virtual desktop functions as though it were running directly on the user’s computer, however, critical data would reside in the datacenter. Doing so not only guards against theft or loss but it also provides ease of management by allowing IT managers to more quickly create users and workgroups, and control and manage desktops and updates from a central location. Marc Hamilton, vice president of Solaris Marketing at Sun had this to say, “The accelerated adoption of server virtualization has heightened awareness of the benefits of consolidating servers and IP in the datacenter, and has paved the way toward the adoption of a hosted and virtualized desktop model.”Sun VDI Software will be available in October 2007, priced at $149 per user, and will install on both Solaris and Linux operating systems. Software Development