[THIN] Re: RTO Software
- From: "Andrew Wood" <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:06:28 +0100
Looks like its not restricted to SBC - could be used on standard desktops
There have been a couple of reviews and videos:
http://www.dabcc.com/video.aspx?id=9
http://www.thincomputing.net/articles/a-first-look-at-rto-virtual-profiles.h
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Personally, I think its a method of streaming files contained in a roaming
profile to the desktop - be that on a terminal server or a normal desktop;
essentially not making the profile smaller per se, but reducing the impact
of the size of the profile on load/unload times. Given most profiles growth
contains static content the login times should be reduced.
From the marketing bumpf there is a client side component and a server side
component - and from that I can't see why it couldn't be used in a standard
desktop environment.
I've asked for an eval to see if it'll work - I can keep you posted.
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Beckett, William (Bill)
Sent: 13 May 2008 13:29
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] RTO Software
Is anyone out there using the virtual profiles software? It seems that the
main benefit is logon time, which of course is critical but am I missing
anything as far as other benefits/problems solved? Not knocking at all, it's
a great idea..in fact is a TS environment the only place it can be used or
can it be implemented for roaming profiles on a fat client?
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