About

Virtual Bridges

Virtual Bridges Management Team

Virtual Bridges is a privately-held software company headquartered in Austin, TX. The company was founded by open systems and enterprise infrastructure professionals with the mission to transform the way that organizations provision and manage desktops by leveraging open-source technologies and standards to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end desktop management infrastructure combining virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and managed desktops, using an integrated client-side hypervisor, at a disruptive price point.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) delivers two powerful benefits to any organization. It lowers the total cost of desktop ownership (TCO) through more efficient management and provisioning of desktops, and it gives an organization unprecedented agility in responding to the user-focused IT needs of the organization – increased mobility, increased productivity, and increased responsiveness to change.

The VERDE™ 3.0 Suite provides the most comprehensive managed virtual desktop solution available today. It delivers advanced technology to enterprise, managed service providers (MSPs), government, education, not-for-profits and other organizations looking to manage anywhere from dozens to millions of users, and all sizes in between. VERDE’s elegant architecture offers ease of deployment and simplified management together with increased flexibility and reliability. Combined with its simple, all-inclusive per-seat pricing model, VERDE is the right choice for any VDI or managed desktop strategy.

Gartner Group estimated that the market for Hosted Virtual Desktops, aka, VDI, will reach $65B by 2013.

Virtual Bridges products are targeted at enterprise customers and large organizations although the product family is also ideal for the needs of small and medium businesses, educational institutions and managed service providers.

The company’s customers include household names such as McDonalds, ATT and Radio Shack. McDonalds has deployed the company’s products in roughly 15,000 stores. Radio Shack Canada has deployed them in over 800 stores. A group of schools in the Netherlands supports close to 10,000 users on Virtual Bridges software. In aggregate, the company has sold over one million units.

The company has a general industry focus on education, health care, retail and financial services but serves any company looking to lower their desktop Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Virtual Bridges has forged partnerships with IBM and Canonical, and has other partnerships with leading Linux companies such as Novell, Red Hat, Sun and Oracle. In addition to major industry partners, the company has established a strong network of partners covering all major markets worldwide.

VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment) is the company’s flagship product allowing users to serve up to a million user sessions per cluster on up to 10,000 servers seamlessly clustered. The product runs either Windows or Linux “guest” sessions from a server or cluster of servers and allows users to access these dynamic, individually unique, yet stateless sessions, from any network-connected device, allowing organizations to completely transform Desktop TCO while increasing user flexibility and productivity.

Virtual Bridges has focused on the virtualization of desktops since its founding. The major competitors to Virtual Bridges, VMware and Citrix, have both entered this market over the past couple of years but are hampered by their legacy cultures and product architectures – in the case of Citrix with Terminal Services, and with VMware, with server consolidation.

By focusing on desktop virtualization and consolidation from the beginning, Virtual Bridges has gained a major advantage over its competitors through its ability to quickly respond to customer and partner requirements. Examples of this include being the first to deliver dynamic “Gold” image provisioning, massively scalable clustering, automated replicated branch infrastructure as well as disconnected use and local processing. Virtual Bridges is the only company in the market to offer VDI integrated with “disconnected use” managing users from the same management infrastructure.

Most recently, Virtual Bridges has set the bar for the industry with the announcement of its LEAF technology in putting the VDI client and the Managed Desktop on a USB pen drive that allows users to either boot directly off of the USB stick, or use the stick to run off of any PC available.

The management team is comprised of seasoned industry veterans and successful entrepreneurs with a long history of delivering value to enterprise customers worldwide.

In December 2008, the company announced a major partnership with IBM and Canonical to deliver VDI-based, Microsoft-free desktops. The market reaction was immediate and overwhelmingly enthusiastic. The highly scalable virtualization solution from Virtual Bridges together with trusted reputation of IBM has made this a compelling solution for these challenging economic times.

The Virtual Bridges support model is very scalable allowing it to support large enterprise customers by partnering with VARs and OEMs who provide level 1 and level 2 support while escalating level 3 requests to the Virtual Bridges support team. We have well-respected partners  across the US and in countries worldwide, including Japan, Germany, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, South Africa and many others. This model has been effective in supporting 15,000 company-owned stores for McDonalds, as well as many other large deployments in the thousands of users.

We believe that Virtual Bridges has the most compelling Virtual Desktop solution available in the industry, as well as the organizational experience and partner network to deliver this solution to you with the fastest Time-to-ROI of any other vendor in the market. Whether you are interested in purchasing or partnering, we would appreciate the opportunity to prove this to you.

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