Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced enhancements to the company's innovative virtualization software solutions, Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator (VDA) and Wyse TCX Suite.

Wyse VDA is a software-only solution for Wyse devices and supported PCs in desktop virtualization and cloud computing environments that accelerates the user experience by correcting issues common with long or latent networks. Wyse VDA is a cost-effective software-only alternative to hardware-based network acceleration, delivering the best user experience for the network bandwidth allocated to users. Additionally, Wyse VDA neutralizes the effects of network delays (latencies) and errors (packet loss) making it ideal for remote, branch, or field-based users.

The new Wyse VDA dramatically accelerates the delivery of graphics-rich content such as Web pages, Flash, media-rich applications and text-based content by up to 300% or more. The new version of VDA accelerates even low bandwidth (as low as 1 Mbps) and low latency (as low as 30 mSec) connections.

The Wyse TCX Suite optimizes user experience on cloud computing and desktop virtualization platforms, delivering enhanced multimedia, audio, Flash, USB support and multi-display capabilities without the network downsides. Wyse TCX features Collaborative Processing Architecture (CPA) which intelligently takes advantage of the power of the client endpoint, reducing the need for larger servers, and delivering the best cloud computing or virtual desktop user experience available. Wyse TCX software enhances established protocols (instead of replacing them), adds valuable functionality and – importantly – shifts processing workload to the thin client’s processor whenever it’s appropriate.

The Wyse TCX Suite has been improved through the introduction of new functionality on the USB Virtualizer, which provides enhanced security of enterprise data by supporting redirection of encrypted USB drives. In addition, the benefits of Flash Acceleration technologies have been extended to users of Firefox browsers.

"Wyse's plug-and-play support for SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise encrypted USB flash drives can help enterprises and administrators meet the unique USB security, compliance and manageability needs of large organizations in a desktop virtualization scenario," said Yariv Fishman, Director, Enterprise Product Marketing, SanDisk. "Together, Wyse and SanDisk can enable professionals to protect information across their organizations using company-issued SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise secure USB flash drives while leveraging public or private cloud-based desktop virtualization environments."

"Without Wyse TCX USB Virtualizer's unique support for encrypted USB drives, customers are either exposed to possible enterprise data loss because of the use of non encrypted drives or have to limit user productivity by disallowing the use of USB drives," according to Param Desai, Director, Product Management at Wyse Technology. "Similarly, without TCX Flash Acceleration support for both IE and Firefox, end users are limited in their choice of browsers to view their favorite Flash content."