Oracle ships Secure Global Desktop 4.6
Oracle has delivered an updated version of its Secure Global Desktop that offers more browser flexibility, enhanced availability and seamless integration with VDI platforms.
Oracle Secure Global Desktop -- one of Oracle's three desktop virtualization offerings that came from Sun (and was originally developed by Tarantella) -- provides server-hosted application and server-hosted desktop access. It integrates with Oracle's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure but is also designed for access to and remote management of server-hosted applications.
The Secure Global Desktop 4.6, which was formally announced Friday, offers customers more browser flexibility.
"The Secure Global Desktop client has the flexibility to be used with nearly any Java-enabled browser to access server-hosted browser instances where the server-hosted application requires a different browser, plug-ins, or settings," Oracle noted in a press release.
This will vastly reduce the number of browser instances that need to be deployed and supported in the data center, the company claims.
Version 4.6 also provides enhanced availability, management and security features.
The software's new Array Resilience feature, for example, enhances availability by automatically re-establishing connections to the server array after a primary server or network failure.
Version 4.6 also offers enhanced application launch control. The Dynamic launch feature, while giving users more control over launching aplications, reduces administrative overhead.
The upgrade also provides more seamless integration with third party VDI brokers, including oracle's own VDI solution, naturally.
What else? New support for hot plug of local disk drives and USB drives as well as support for 32-bit color support for Windows client and the ability to customize Windows client presentation to users.
The enhanced client also offers better security features including configurable directory servers and password management. "Administrators can configure individual settings for multiple directory services, such as Oracle Internet Directory, Microsoft Active Directory and other LDAP servers," Oracle noted.
Oracle also shipped last month an upgrade of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, version 3.2, and a minor update of its VirtualBox, version 3.2.8.
Oracle recently outlined an ambitious virtualization strategy for 2010-2011, including the delivery of more desktop offerings and VMTemplates.
"Every few weeks we are introducing new products or updates all in the areas of virtualization, thin client hardware (sun ray), sun ray server updates, virtualbox updates, secure global desktop, VDI, Oracle VM etc," wrote Wim Coekaerts, Oracle's Vice President of Linux Engineering, in his blog late last week. "It's an exciting time for us and we are going full speed ahead, running on all cylinders, to improve and innovate the most comprehensive set of products in this space available."
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