Centralized, standardized, stateless thin-client architecture is more efficient to manage than distributed PC-based solutions.
The Technology Behind ThinIdentity
ThinIdentity combines our own proprietary communication protocols and technology with proven technology from industry-leading companies. ThinIdentity delivers a highly reliable, scalable, and efficient virtual desktop infrastructure solution for healthcare organizations. ThinIdentity incorporates a stateless thin client architecture with highly reliable and intelligent brokering and a robust back-end virtualization infrastructure to deliver smooth roaming capabilities with near-instant access to critical patient information.
There are a variety of desktop virtualization solutions on the market, each with its own set of benefits. Generally, no single virtualization solution meets the unique needs of each system or application in your environment and up until now, there has not been a solution that allows the IT organization to deliver the appropriate virtualization solution for each individual requirement. ThinIdentity’s unique architecture enables the support of a heterogeneous back-end virtualization infrastructure. With ThinIdentity’s intelligent virtual desktop functionality, hospitals can easily deploy multiple virtualization engines to deliver the right solution for each person or group in your organization.
ThinIdentity’s Core Technology
Virtual Managing Protocol (VMP) is ThinIdentity’s patent-pending technology that creates system level communication between the ThinIdentity Synchronizer and each desktop session to allow for dynamic smooth roaming as never before.
Typical thin client architectures support a standard display protocol (such as RDP) to transmit keystrokes, mouse operations and video data to and from the terminal. Using agent managers that reside at multiple levels of the architecture, VMP allows enhanced system-to-system level communication between the stateless thin client device and the user’s virtual desktop. VMP rides along-side other protocols to support more advanced demographics and location management, follow-me printing and full use of Windows plug & play USB devices. Centralized logging, dynamic policy control and dynamic application delivery are also enabled by VMP.
VMP is included as part of the Synchronizer.
Virtual Location Awareness. One of the greatest challenges in virtual technology solutions is the ability for applications to know the physical location of the end users and their terminals. ThinIdentity solves this problem with the creation of a new technology called Virtual Location Awareness (VLA).
In a healthcare environment, doctors and nurses are constantly moving from room to room, terminal to terminal. Using VLA, ThinIdentity dynamically updates access to content and location-specific functionalities such as printing from legacy applications. This technology works with any virtual platform (VMware, Citrix, MS Terminal Services, etc.), and ensures appropriate application functionality and access based on the specific identity and location of the caregiver.
Additional Technologies Employed
Back-end Infrastructure
ThinIdentity utilizes industry best practices and proven methodologies to deliver virtual desktops to identified groups or users with the most cost effective delivery platform. (i.e. Citrix®, VMware® or Microsoft Terminal Services®).
Application Virtualization
ThinIdentity takes advantage of existing application virtualization technologies and Workspace Manager to dynamically serve applications and manage application deployment.
Stateless Thin Client Architecture
ThinIdentity uses a centralized, stateless thin client architecture from Sun Microsystems to provide desktop access anywhere, anytime. The Sun Microsystems Sun Ray™ terminal provides key architectural components to the ThinIdentity solution.
Redundant/Highly Available Components
ThinIdentity leverages redundant components including virtualization platforms, applications servers and network components to deliver unprecedented reliability – enabling 5-9s of reliability to the desktop. As long as you have network connectivity, you experience unmatched reliability to your back-end virtual desktop.
Network Protocols
ThinIdentity employs multiple industry standard network protocols to support virtual desktop sessions across various platforms including RDP, ALP, UDP, TCP/IP as well as our own proprietary VMP. All protocol level communication uses 128 bit encryption for security.
