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| February 7, 2008 04:00 PM EST |
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VMware enhanced its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution
with the new VMware Virtual Desktop Manager 2. Available immediately, VMware
Desktop Manager 2 allows users to securely connect to their virtual desktops in
the data center and gives IT administrators an easy and cost- effective way to
manage virtual desktops. Major industry leaders, including Dell, HP, IBM, NEC
and Wyse Technology, have embraced and extended VMware's virtual desktop
solution, making it a complete desktop virtualization solution for the
enterprise.
VMware VDI integrates VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware
Virtual Desktop Manager 2 and provides an easy-to-manage desktop virtualization
solution that takes advantage of virtualization technology used by more than
100,000 organizations. VMware VDI streamlines desktop management, reduces
operational costs and provides business continuity capabilities that until now
were available only for mission-critical server applications. By leveraging the
capabilities of VMware Infrastructure 3, no other desktop virtualization
solution offers comparable enterprise-class performance, reliability, security,
manageability and seamless integration in a single solution.
VMware Virtual Desktop Manager 2 is a desktop management
server that connects users to virtual desktops in the data center. With VMware
Virtual Desktop Manager 2, end users can securely access their virtual desktops
using either a personal computer or thin client. The product's easy-to-use interface
lets administrators manage thousands of desktops at once, and reduces the time
it takes to provision a new desktop from hours to minutes.
"With VMware VDI, we've taken our desktop
virtualization implementation to the next level and made our investment in
VMware virtualization go even further," said Steve Beaver, systems
administrator at Florida
Hospital. "VMware's
enterprise-class Virtual Desktop Manager 2 gives us a tightly integrated
desktop virtualization solution that lets us rapidly provision new desktops to
end users, reduce our support costs and manage desktops more efficiently across
our organization."
"The addition of VMware Virtual Desktop Manager to
VMware VDI provides us with a complete desktop virtualization solution that
extends our existing investment in VMware Infrastructure," said Ian
Mellor, network infrastructure and application consultant at the Association of
Teachers and Lecturers. "This end-to-end solution enables us to leverage
robust business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities while simplifying
management, reducing operating costs and increasing control of our desktop deployments.
Our users benefit from increased service levels while our IT staff benefits
from reduced complexity."
