Transforming Desktop TCO, improving Security and Compliance, and Increasing Organizational Agility

Whether you call it VDI, Hosted Virtual Desktops or Desktop-as-a-Managed Service, the common denominator is that virtualization promises to revolutionize desktop management and provisioning for companies of all sizes.

The 29-year reign of the PC-as-we-know-it is fast approaching the end. With the release of Windows 7, organizations will take advantage of the deployment efficiencies inherent in virtualization and usher in the era of Desktop-as-a-Managed-Service. The “Cloud” – whether public, private or a hybrid – promises to offer hosting of not only applications and services, but also desktops.

By 2013 Gartner Group predicts 40% of professional PC’s will be managed under a hosted virtual desktop model of some kind – that represents a $65B vote-of-confidence in this approach. The next few years will be a time of monumental transition as companies of all sizes begin to pilot and deploy Desktop-as-a-Managed-Service as part of their Windows 7 and alternative “Cloud desktop” adoption plans.

Virtual Bridges’ VERDE

In partnership with IBM and leading Linux vendors such as Canonical, Novell and Red Hat, Virtual Bridges has the answer with its pace-setting VERDE Desktop-as-a-Managed-Service Suite. VERDE offers the most feature-rich, cost-effective solution for addressing the needs of companies of all sizes.

Who is Virtual Bridges? Virtual Bridges is the company that invented VDI, although it wasn’t called VDI at that time. Virtual Bridges pioneered the notion of gold-master provisioning years before others started adopting it, and the Virtual Bridges approach remains the most functional, elegant and efficient approach available. Virtual Bridges was the first vendor to introduce VDI combined with disconnected use, or Client-Side Hypervisor, that was managed from a common management infrastructure.

Virtual Bridges was also the first VDI vendor to introduce replicated branch infrastructure, known as Cloud Branch, which brings the power of VDI down to the branch and SMB level while retaining the power of centralized management. Virtual Bridges was also the first, and is still the only, vendor to support both Windows and Linux guests in an integrated common management model giving users the flexibility to deploy more cost-effective alternative “cloud” desktops that are unencumbered by the Microsoft VECD tax.

All of these capabilities combine to lead noted industry analyst Robin Bloor to comment that “The emergence of Virtual Bridges was perhaps the only significant development in the client virtualization market last year” in his list of Top 10 IT Companies to Watch in 2010

Find out more about how Virtual Bridges can help your organization use desktop virtualization to drive positive change in desktop management and provisioning. Whether your business is an enterprise, a small and medium business (SMB), a managed service provider (MSP), a desktop outsourcer or you wish to become a partner, contact us today at
sales@vbridges.com

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VERDE Resources

Download VERDE 3.0 Solution Overview (PDF)
Download VERDE 3.0 Suite Datasheet (PDF)