Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Working remotely with linux.

With advent of high speed internet connections, more people now use Remote Desktop and / or Virtual Desktop technologies to do their daily work. Put simply, a "Remote Desktop Session" is where a person uses a computer at their location to access the Desktop on another computer which is physically located somewhere else, via the internet or some other wide area network.

Typical Remote Desktop diagram

Linux is a multi-user operating system which supports Desktop Sharing for multiple users concurrently. This native support works very well on high speed local area networks, however, on slower connections performance drops off. To overcome these limitations, several add-on products exist, which improve security and accelerate the speed at which these connections work. One such product is the NX (No-Machine) Suite of software available from www.nomachine.com

NX client software for use on your PC, Laptop or Netbook is available for the following operating systems:
  • Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7.
  • Apple Mac OS-X
  • Linux
  • Solaris
Once installed the NX Client enables you to access remotely located PCs, or Virtual Infrastructure hosted in a secure data centre, from anywhere via a half decent internet connection.

Typical Remote Desktop diagram

Alternatively you may choose to have your Remote Desktop solution built into your systems by a specialist linux integration provider such as EnterLux™.

Through their partnership with Vmail Internet Services and a network of global partners, EnterLux™ offer "Hosted Server and Desktop Infrastructure Virtualization" - your entire network infrastructure can be hosted in a secure data centre and you pay only for the setup and use of the system. All Backups, System Updates and Disaster Recovery Operations are carried out by highly skilled technicians so you only have to do your job and not fix computers as well. Alternatively they can install these technologies in your own data centre at Head Office etc...

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