Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation software
solutions, announced today that it will be demonstrating its innovative
products at Booth #2528 at VMworld in San Francisco, August 24th through
the 28th.
Attendees can learn more about the new features in the company's offerings being unveiled at the event.
Liquidware Labs' comprehensive monitoring, performance validation and
diagnostics solution, Stratusphere UX, received a number of notable
updates that will be shown at VMworld. Increasing the solution's user
experience visibility, Stratusphere UX adds inspection capabilities for
display protocol metrics, such as PCoIP, ICA and RDP, as well as updated
dashboard capabilities in the advanced overview tabs. Similarly,
Stratusphere UX now provides browser-tab level visibility for Google
Chrome performance and resource consumption. For customers looking to
extend the power and flexibility of user-experience data, Stratusphere
UX now offers a powerful API that can flow metrics and information into
other operational and systems platforms as well as provide ad hoc
reporting capabilities.
Flex-IO, IOPS Acceleration software for stateless VDI environments,
has also been updated. Flex-IO now boasts enhanced performance under
full VDI pool workload that has been proven to gain superior results in
overall read and write IOPS as well as decreased latency.
ProfileUnity, the company's popular User Profile and User Environment
Management software has recently received significant updates. The
latest version, released in July, features new Application Rights
Management, which enables administrators to allow or deny applications
from being executed, delivered, or installed on select users' Windows
physical or virtual desktops and laptops. In-session policy and profile
changes and saves are also now possible with the new Triggers feature.
Organizations will also find their familiar classic Start Menu option
for Windows 8.x, something that the market has been requesting.
VMworld attendees can learn more about Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity
in action in a large and demanding customer environment at
presentation: EUC1692 - Overcoming 21st Century Education Challenges with VDI which highlights Buffalo Public Schools (BPS).
BPS is the second largest school district in New York State, and
serves approximately 35,000 students across 60 facilities. Their VDI
deployment is one of the largest VMware Horizon® ViewTM Standard Edition
installations to date. A critical decision involved finding the best
way to manage students', faculty and staff profiles across such a large
environment, and for this function, BPS chose Liquidware Labs
ProfileUnity. The deployment has been a resounding success for the
organization, literally transforming the delivery of the computing
resources needed to support learning across primary and secondary
curricula.
BPS CTO Sanjay Gilani is pleased that the district's accomplishments will be highlighted at the event.
"We had major challenges to overcome when we started this project,
but we knew that the quality of our students' education depended on
getting the technical infrastructure correct. This presentation allows
other K-12 school districts to learn about and benefit from our
pioneering work in this area," said Gilani.
Mr. Gilani added that utilizing Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity was
imperative to rolling out virtual desktops across a school district of
this complexity with a myriad of teaching and learning needs. "We knew
that profile and environment management in an installation of this size
would be critical. We wanted to leverage non-persistent desktops in
order to keep the costs and management reasonable, but another essential
goal was also to ensure that faculty and students had the full desktop
experience with all learning resources available," said Gilani. "When
you look at all the parameters that drove our decision, including
affordability, scalability and robust functionality that spanned user
profiles, user environment management and application layering
management, only ProfileUnity fit all these criteria."
"Customer successes -- such as the one at Buffalo Public Schools --
continue to inspire us at VMware to seek out and recognize the
achievements of our ecosystem, who are increasingly instrumental in the
success of VMware Horizon® deployments," said Kit Colbert, CTO, End-User
Computing at VMware. "Liquidware Labs has done an outstanding job of
bringing new features and functionality to market to make end-user
computing in all of its forms easier to understand and deploy, helping
reduce costs and complexities."
Adopters of newly released VMware Horizon 6 are quickly discovering
the value of Liquidware Labs' comprehensive suite of solutions,
including Stratusphere FIT, Stratusphere UX, ProfileUnity with FlexApp
and Flex-IO in their initiatives, especially as their environments go
into production and scale.
"Desktop virtualization adopters have grown very sophisticated and
want to deploy best practices and work with world-class vendors to get
the most out of their investments. With the launch of VMware Horizon 6,
they now have more options than ever," said Chris Akerberg, President
and COO of Liquidware Labs. "Our solutions provide closely
interconnected, complementary functionality so customers can achieve the
best results, both now and as VMware Horizon continues to evolve."