Second Life Enterprise
From metafuturing
November 23 - I attended a briefing for SL Solution Providers, in a SL Enterprise demo area hosted on on Amazon EC2. The demo included not only the user experience, but also and especially the administration features.
Pictures taken at the Second Life Enterprise presentation to Second Life developers (SLDEV) on November 5, 2009
Linden Lab - Linden Lab Adds Behind-the-Firewall Product and Apps Marketplace to Second Life Enterprise Offering
SAN FRANCISCO — November 4, 2009 — Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life®, today launched an open Beta program for its behind-the-firewall product, Second Life Enterprise™.
Some of the features of Second Life Enterprise Beta include:
- Runs completely within an enterprise’s network thus providing the same level of security as their intranet. With comprehensive authentication and access controls, this enables confidential and proprietary information, prototypes and training materials to be shared securely.
- Advanced 3D visual, spatial audio, and text collaboration tools to allow workers to easily upload media files, share documents and create custom content.
- Seven prepackaged virtual regions, including a four-corners all-hands auditorium, two conference centers, and a number of sandbox regions, where users can test virtual items and practice building. Also included is a set of standard business avatars. With a full set of workspaces and avatars, enterprises can begin using the product immediately after deployment. Additionally, content owned by the company can be moved from the main Second Life environment into the Second Life Enterprise Beta environment, maximizing investments already made in Second Life.
- Centralized administration that enables enterprises to manage the entire environment including users, regions and content from one central location, complete with LDAP integration. Administrators can also allow Second Life Enterprise Beta users to use their real-life names for their avatars.
- Advanced infrastructure that can support up to eight regions simultaneously and 800 concurrent users in the same immersive environment.
Pricing for Second Life Enterprise starts at $55,000. Linden Lab expects the beta program to run through Q4 and announce general availability during the first half of 2010.
The Second Life Work Marketplace is currently under development and a closed alpha is planned for the end of Q1 2010.
Linden Lab - Introducing Second Life Enterprise, Now in Beta, and Second Life Work Marketplace
Today, we’re excited to announce the beta launch of Second Life Enterprise, formerly known by our internal code name “Nebraska” and now known as SL Enterprise. SL Enterprise is the most secure, content-rich, and flexible enterprise-ready virtual workplace solution available today, built on the world's leading 3D virtual world technology platform--Second Life. The SL Enterprise solution enables large organizations to bring distributed colleagues together into a persistent branded immersive space to collaborate, meet, learn, and prototype new offerings, while cutting travel costs and working greener. Customers including IBM, Intel, Case Western Reserve, New Media Consortium, DefenseWeb Technologies, Northrop Grumman, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and many others, are maintaining and growing their presence in Second Life while also working in the SL Enterprise environment for certain uses that require higher levels of security and control.
Second Life Enterprise Product Page
Second Life Enterprise Beta is a fully integrated set of two servers: the Second Life Server and the Second Life Voice Server. Once these servers are installed in your data center, they provide a full out-of-the box 3D immersive experience that includes:
- Standard 8-core server hardware that runs 8 concurrent Second Life regions
- Support for a maximum of 800 concurrent avatars, with an optimal maximum of 700 avatars
- Powerful inworld 3D building tools and scripting language
- LDAP integration for account creation and authentication
- Web services for external system integration
- 3D spatial voice, peer-to-peer calling, and group voice moderated chat
- Support for direct SLurls
- Second Life Enterprise client software for both Windows and Mac
Second Life Enterprise Datasheet Second Life Enterprise FAQs
Dusan Writer - REPORT FROM ENTERPRISE 2.0: IS THERE ROOM AT THE BIG TABLE FOR VIRTUAL WORLDS?
Massively - Linden Lab launches Second Life Enterprise beta, Second Life Work Marketplace to come
Financial Times - Second Life Enterprise, announced on Wednesday, is a version of the virtual world for business, packaged as an appliance that can be plugged easily into a corporate network. This behind-the-firewall product should give a second enterprise life to Second Life, satisfying the reservations of businesses who feel the consumer-driven open world does not have enough security, controls and content for their needs. Linden Lab, Second Life’s creator, is offering a complete package, rather like Google’s bright yellow search appliance. It will supply and provide support for a server that can be added to a company network, with a private version of Second Life installed on it. Pricing starts at $55,000... More than 1,400 organisations are currently using Second Life. IBM and Linden Lab announced in April last year that they would work together to develop an enterprise-class virtual world that would convince companies of the value of communicating through avatars and 3D environments.
Interesting article on ThinkBalm - When is Second Life Enterprise beta right for you?
