Virtual Bridges partners with IBM and Canonical for Microsoft-free “Desktops in the Cloud”

In  these challenging times, economic viability becomes the prime directive. Organizations are looking long and hard at business-as-usual practices that may have never warranted review before. In the IT organization, hard questions are being asked around why huge premiums are being paid to Microsoft for desktop architectures that are dated and expensive.

Timing is everything: Thankfully for IT departments under extreme pressure to reduce costs, IBM, Canonical and Virtual Bridges have teamed up to offer an IBM Global Technologies-supported combination that delivers not only equivalent applications and services, but also delivers them on top of the easy-to-use, extremely popular, Ubuntu Linux operating system.

That alone should be enough to turn the eye of cost-conscious IT organizations, but when VERDE, Linux-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, is added to the combination, it multiplies the benefits by dramatically reducing desktop management and provisioning costs while increasing user productivity.

• By making these desktops “virtual”, a user can access the same desktop environment whether they are at home, the office, the road or anywhere where there is a machine connected to the network.

• By consolidating these desktop sessions onto centrally-managed servers, users no longer have to self-maintain their desktops or put unnecessary burdens on the Help Desk. This means literally putting your desktops in the data center and allowing access to them securely over the network. Accessing your personal desktop is as easy as accessing a web page.

The next generation of desktop computing is dawning before our eyes. This is the moment when change must be embraced. This announcement is about modern desktops and delivery infrastructure for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities.

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