Liquidware,
a leading provider of platform-agnostic end-user computing solutions,
today announced that partners are utilizing Liquidware solutions to move
their customers to Amazon, Citrix, and VMware cloud-based desktops as a
service (DaaS). The announcement took place at this week's Citrix
Summit (Liquidware booth #406).
Liquidware Workspace Environment Management
(WEM) solutions are the market's only third-party user management suite
that helps transform and manage users in pure cloud-based desktop
deployments, such as Amazon WorkSpaces or Citrix desktops on Azure.
Liquidware is a Citrix Ready verified Partner, a VMware Alliance
Partner, and the community's only Workspace Environment Management
member of Amazon's AWS Advanced Partner Network.
Recent research from IDC highlights a
CAGR of 32.1% for DaaS. Mobile workforce environments are a key driver
of this growth, along with DaaS offering an efficient and secure
delivery of corporate information across varying device types. According
to that same research, a key benefit of consuming DaaS is to gain an
increased ability in unifying desktop, application, security, and
mobility management, allowing organizations to more efficiently and
effectively empower their employees via improved user experiences across
disparate device types while improving IT operations and security.
"In the last several years people have
surmised time and again that every coming year will be 'The Year of
VDI.' In truth, VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) has been on an
upward trend over many years. We are seeing that 2018 will be the start
of the same trend for DaaS adoption. Hosting options and management
features have evolved and turnkey 'Pure DaaS' desktops are emerging.
2018 will indeed be the year of significant DaaS adoption," commented Jason E. Smith,
VP Products, Liquidware. "By combining the flexibility of desktops in
the cloud with management solutions from Liquidware, channel partners
will enable their customers to assess, on-board, and manage DaaS users
through every stage of the cloud workspace lifecycle."
Liquidware Workspace Environment management solutions include:
- Liquidware Stratusphere UX assesses users, monitors user
experience and provides diagnostics to ensure DaaS and on-premise
workspace environments are both sized appropriately and properly
managed.
- Liquidware ProfileUnity is full user environment management that
enables seamless migrations to DaaS and on-premise desktops. Users are
then managed efficiently with context-aware policies, dynamic profiles
that perform on any Windows OS version, and advanced options that handle
large profiles such as Office 365 and cloud storage caches.
- Liquidware FlexApp provides Application Layering to end the
needless cycle of modifying base images to deliver applications.
Advanced options include a Click-to-LayerTM feature and PackageOnceTM
technology that enables most applications to be delivered to a mixed
Windows OS enterprise. FlexApp is compatible with any Windows deployment
and is especially effective in DaaS, VDI, and application delivery
strategies such as Citrix XenApp application publishing and Amazon
AppStream.
In a recent blog post J. Tyler Rohrer,
co-founder of Liquidware, discussed how channel partners can benefit
from embracing DaaS in order to deliver the ultimate next-generation
desktop for their customers. You can view the post here: https://blog.liquidware.com/2018/01/05/daas-decoded-how-partners-are-going-to-benefit/
What Partners Are Saying About Liquidware
"Working
with Liquidware and Amazon WorkSpaces is providing us fresh
opportunities to expand our portfolio of services to the cloud and grow
our business," commented said Chris Noon, co-founder of Nuvens - an Amazon WorkSpaces and Liquidware partner.
"While many of my customers are interested in
DaaS as a viable option, they need to ensure they move the right
workloads to the cloud and then maintain management and control of
them," stated Keith Paschall,
CEO of Centrinet, a leading Liquidware, Citrix, and VMware partner.
"Utilizing Liquidware's leading WEM solutions provides the assurances
they, and we, are looking for to deliver the end-user experience that
the business needs."
"When customers are looking to extend their
on-premises Virtual Desktop and Application deployments to the public
cloud or re-platform altogether, it's critical to gain insight into
existing performance metrics and sizing considerations that will drive
costs," said Nick Frank,
Practice Lead of End-User Computing, AHEAD. "We use Liquidware
Stratusphere UX to perform assessments and leverage Liquidware's leading
Workspace Environment Management solutions to deliver the end-user
experience and financial analysis that the business needs."