RingCube is the second vendor to step up to the Virtual Desktop NAS Vendor Challenge. This submission comes from Doug Dooley, VP of Marketing at RingCube.

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Here is RingCube’s architecture submission in the Virtual Desktop NAS category with a specific solution example.

It is called “vDesk over the network” and it is one of the four vDesk deployment methods. This method enables organizations to stream personalized virtual desktops from any Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance or file server that supports the CIFS protocol from a virtual hard drive (VHD) container. Users access their virtual desktop over the LAN using the on-demand vDesk client that is automatically downloaded via a web-based client portal. When the user runs their virtual desktop, the personalized vDesk workspace is streamed to the user’s PC and executed locally, allowing data, applications, and settings to be stored centrally. When the user shuts down their vDesk workspace, the changes that were made during the session are preserved on the NAS appliance for the user to access in the future from any PC on the LAN without leaving data behind on the host PC from the virtual workspace.

As you can see in the specific solution diagram, a single Sun server can deliver a complete virtual desktop solution with traditional PCs.  What is truly unique about the RingCube offering with Sun is that customers can also combine their NAS storage solution with their traditional VDI technology to deliver virtual desktops to Sun Ray thin clients as well.  Again, all from a single server at fairly significant scale.