I have a few pet projects on my plate as of late.  By pet I mean, ones I’m more excited about than others.

BGAN Satellite connectivity: The task is this:  Provide **reliable** access to the company network from the remotest of remote locations.  When I mean remote, I mean you don’t even have electricity, just the battery in your laptop and maybe a DC car adapter, surrounded by mountains and foothills.  Last year, I set up a process utilizing Sprints EVDO wireless data card, and while this proved fast, it certainly did not prove reliable.  It was only functional as far as a typical sprint cell phone would be, which if you happen to be a sprint customer, you know thats rather on the limited side.  I will be testing a Hughes 9201 immersat mobile dish in the upcoming months to see what options we have here.

DSView:  Expanding a product released by avocent to fully leverage all the available components of a truly lights-out data-center.  Extending this product in the following ways:

• 2 Factor Authentication (Smartcard or RSA)
• Single Sign-on (Certificate pass-through)
• VMWare extensions
• iLO/iLOM extensions
• Fully implement Serial-over-LAN
• KVM/VM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse/Virtual Media

High-End Workstation Blades and software: Using a combination of 3rd party and homebrew tools to leverage a pool of high-end graphics enabled workstation blades to provide a completely remote High-ended graphic modeling solution.

I’m considering dropping another one on my plate:

Virtual Workplace (a.k.a. Sun Microsystems Project Wonderland)

I see so much potential in this tool.  Its a truly cross-platform solution to applications integration and virtual collaboration that far exceeds your traditional teleconferences and netmeeting offerings today.  The best part is that its completely open source.  You simply have to see it in action to see what I mean.

~ by sparticus414 on July 9, 2008.