Liquidware Labs Knocks Down Barriers to VDI with Award-Winning User

Oct. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- seamless support for user-installed applications, removing barriers to stateless virtual desktops


COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, October 17, 2011 – VMworld Booth #61 – Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation solutions, today announced they will be showcasing their award-winning user virtualization solution, ProfileUnity, at VMworld Europe, October 18-20 in Copenhagen, Denmark at booth #61.  ProfileUnity delivers background data and persona migration, context aware persona management and user installed applications, rounding out Liquidware Labs VDI Essentials suite and promoting a complete methodology to lower cost and deliver reliable migration and management for organizations adopting virtual desktops.

“The cost and complexity of VDI solutions prompted many organizations to put their projects on hold,” said David Bieneman, Liquidware Labs Co-Founder and CEO. “But as we will demonstrate at VMworld Europe, our proven solutions and our strong deployment methodology, utilized by our partners, will greatly benefit European companies whether they are in the early, mid or late stages of a VDI deployment.”

Unlike its competition, Liquidware Labs offers a complete desktop transformation methodology that is supported by its solutions, which propel customers through assessing the existing infrastructure, designing the proper virtual image strategy and VDI infrastructure, automating the migration of desktop user persona and data, and finally, validating the new user experience on the virtual platform.  Liquidware Labs is the only vendor on the market to offer a total suite of integrated solutions to support VMware® View, saving companies both time and expense.

ProfileUnity with FlexApp, an enhanced feature in Liquidware Labs’ user virtualization solution, is expected to be generally available in Q4 and offers the ability to capture and deploy user-installed applications within stateless, non-persistent, shared-image desktops using VMware View Composer. The solution delivers user-installed applications across both virtual and physical desktops as well as enterprise-wide management of VMware Thinapp.   At VMworld Las Vegas in September, ProfileUnity with FlexApp was voted a finalist in the Best New Technology Category of the Best of VMworld 2011 Awards, and was the only VDI-focused solution to achieve this prestigious award.

“The VMworld Europe event comes at the perfect time for us given that the past quarter was one of the best in company history,” said Bieneman. “Q3 revenues surged by 300 percent; much of that growth came from key enterprise wins in the user virtualization market.”

Liquidware Labs also recently announced that customers can achieve certified, synergistic improvements in profile management by combining VMware View 5™ profile acceleration with ProfileUnity from Liquidware Labs. The combined solutions offer a "one-two punch" for optimizing user profiles in VMware View desktops. While the new profile-management capabilities in View 5 focus on radically improving login and logoff speeds, ProfileUnity further advances the solution by giving desktop administrators control of user-persona management for both physical, virtual and terminal server environments, thus addressing a key challenge faced by customers to manage mixed environments.

In addition to the product demonstrations at the show, Liquidware Labs will also highlight the recent announcement with VMware that the latest version of the award-winning Stratusphere UX™ desktop virtualization solution delivers visibility into the VMware View™ 5 PCoIP® protocol. With this integration, users have deep-level visibility into the performance of the new VMware protocol layer.

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Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. The company's Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been described by analysts as the industry's first 'On-Ramp to VDI,' providing a complete methodology and software that enables organizations to decouple users and applications from the operating system and to cost-effectively plan, migrate, manage and validate the user experience for next-generation desktop infrastructure. Liquidware Labs products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a global network of certified partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.