Liquidware Labs, the leader in Assessment,
Migration, and User Experience Management for next generation desktops,
today announced expanded migration functionality within Liquidware
Labs ProfileUnity™, allowing for seamless migration of user data when
upgrading to next generation desktops.
User data, including documents, design files, and other intellectual
property, are often left behind when users are upgraded to new or
virtual desktops. Without a comprehensive, pre-planned migration plan
for this data, users are often left to their own devices and typically
either don’t migrate data, or use ad-hoc solutions such as jump drives,
CD’s or other portable, unsecured media. As a result, IT is left
scrambling to find data on retired machines when the help desk calls
come in.
ProfileUnity requires no software to be installed to end-points
and features a database-free architecture that empowers both users and
administrators of desktop populations to elegantly migrate the "good
will" that exists on their present desktops [settings, profiles, and
data] to their next generation desktop.
Previously, ProfileUnity could migrate user authored data from the
user profile area of Windows. In v4.6.6, available immediately,
ProfileUnity can now migrate any specified file type or directory from
any location on legacy desktops in the enterprise to users’ secure
network file shares. Administrators can specify the file name or path
to migrate data from, and can also exclude specified file types from
migration.
With the expanded data migration capabilities of ProfileUnity, IT
can proactively backup any data type or file to a pre-determined
network location before the migration occurs, and remap the default
‘save to’ location to the same network drive going forward. This
ensures that data best practices are continued after migration, without
any inconvenience to the end user.
“User data has typically been an afterthought in desktop upgrades
and migrations, and users and their data have had to fend for
themselves,” said Tyler Rohrer, founder and COO of Liquidware Labs. “By
applying an automated, systematic approach and capabilities, we can
ensure that not only is user data migrated to a secure place on the
network where it can be accessed, backed-up and secured, but all future
files can also be pointed to the same drive for a seamless user
experience and ability to easily follow best practices going forward.”
ProfileUnity provides full user environment management
capabilities to manager user virtualization. The solution also
enables organizations to co-exist and migrate user profiles from a
version one profile format (Windows XP, 2000, Server 2003) to a version
two format (Windows Vista, 7, Server 2008).
Some of the largest names in virtual desktop infrastructure,
including VMware, Dell, and Citrix, have all recently signed agreements
with Liquidware Labs that enable their respective consultants to
utilize the assessment and migration features of Liquidware Labs
Stratusphere and Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity.
Liquidware Labs will be demonstrating its Stratusphere and
ProfileUnity solutions in booth 97 in the Innovators Pavilion at
VMworld Europe this week.