Immediate simplification and costs reduction

Managing and supporting locally installed operative systems and applications has always been a time consuming and costly excercise since PCs arrived on our desks.
PCs generally allows a great degree of freedom as users like to personalise their desktops or install their preferred applications but that can turn in to a nightmare not just for technical support but for the whole company.

Here are just a few benefits that a Virtual Desktop Environment, created with Virtual Bridges VERDE, will bring to your company:

Financial Rationalization

• Reduce TCO (CAPEX and OPEX) and improve hardware utilization with fewer servers, cheaper NAS storage, and no external WAN dependency
• Improve time to value via one-click provisioning and reduce deployment by up to 50 percent
• Reduce help desk costs using Gold Master Image technology to deliver applications, patches, updates without disrupting users

Improve IT Support & Operational Efficiency

• Increase control and visibility with one unified management console and configurable reports (capacity and historical data, user and administrator events, desktop and application activity, and more)
• Standardize/automate provisioning processes regardless of desktop hardware or operating system
• Increase business agility by supporting connectivity from almost any client (PC, Mac, thin-client, workstation) as well as mobile and branch workers

Provide Assurance for Technology Updates

• Ease Windows 7 migration by eliminating complexity, cost, time and application compatibility challenges traditionally associated with deployment
• Future-proof your enterprise by leveraging existing infrastructure and hardware

Deliver Consistent Experience for the Desktop

• Ensure consistent user experience between VDI and disconnected use with latest operating system, applications and user documents
• Speed enterprise adoption with high quality, “high-def” user experience, regardless of time, location (branch/mobile), connection (online/offline), device type or point of access (centralized/self-service portal)
• Improve productivity by delivering “LAN-like” performance for branch office users, and bi-directional sync for offline users

Reduce Risk with Enhanced Security & Compliance

• Minimize security concerns with role/task-based provisioning, user/group policies and encrypted offline use
• Reduce risk with native malware resistance for all virtual desktop sessions
• Ensure secure remote access to user desktops and applications with enhanced endpoint security

Deliver Desktop as a Public/Private Cloud Service

• Streamline migration path to cloud computing from old model to enterprise on-premise model to hosted model
• Choose from on-premise, hosted and federated deployment options with guaranteed SLAs

How Virtual Bridges VERDE differentiate itself from the crowd

VERDE brings together powerful technology that no other vendor can match including:

VERDE Hypervisor

• KVM-based hypervisor optimized for Desktop Virtualization
• Only portable hypervisor available today that works across clients and server, including branches
• Hardware-assist (VT) based allows more desktops to run per CPU core
• KSM [Kernel SamePage Merging] for improved memory density

VERDE SmartCast™

• VDI delivery – Delivers the best VDI protocol [SPICE, RDP, NX] based on the user profile, connection status, and desktop workload

VERDE CacheI/O

• Optimizes the Read and Write IOPS using local attached storage
• Reduces the cost of the storage deployment while allowing enhanced user experience

VERDE App Layers

• Allows streamlining of deployment of applications [single application or groups of apps] inside VERDE Gold Master based on user role

Gold Master Technology

• Dynamic desktop model allows delivery of a single shared OS plus applications as a common operating environment to many users
• User personalization such as documents, settings and bookmarks are stored separately and automatically blended into each user session to deliver a fully personalized desktop

Windows and Linux Desktops

• Supports Windows and Linux desktops from a single solution

Stateless Clustering

• Allows up to 10,000 VERDE servers to be clustered together to provide high availability and scalability for VERDE sessions
• Servers are stateless, providing elasticity to the VERDE deployments

Distributed Connection Brokering

• Provides dynamic routing of user sessions to the least busy and memory optimized VERDE server
• Distributed Connection brokering provides no single point of failure or choke point allowing greater availability and scalability

Shared Storage

• Works with Direct Attached Storage and any external shared storage NAS or SAN. VERDE Storage Grid* [To be released; experimental]
• Allows using clustered local attached storage using GFS and GPFS dramatically lowering the cost of VDI storage requirements

AD/Directory integration

• Seamlessly integrates with Active Directory, Novell E-directory and other Directory Services for AAA