Sun Microsystems is touting its thin clients as offering the lowest threshold to IT infrastructure ownership.
Sun Microsystems` Sun Ray thin client and software stack provides a computing model suited to economic development because of low acquisition and administration costs, says Fred Kohout, Sun client systems marketing VP.
"Instead of buying disks, memory and processors for 20 users, an organisation could buy Sun Ray thin clients and a single two-way AMD Opteron or Sun SPARC server, thereby reducing the hardware acquisition cost," says Kohout.
Herb Hinstorff, Sun director of desktop solutions marketing, says further savings can be derived via lower software licensing costs and lower administration costs, with documented cases of a single administrator handling up to 6 000 Sun Rays.
"Unlike many other thin clients, Sun Rays are not PC-based," says Hinstorff. "Sun Rays do not have an operating system or memory and other configurations that need to be continually updated, making them immune to locally introduced problems."
Hinstorff says because Sun Rays are stateless and activated by Java cards, work sessions are also easily transferred and security is guaranteed.
"We are seeing a lot of uptake of Sun Rays where security is important, because each comes with its own integrated security card," says Hinstorff.
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