Is Unidesk an alternative to VMware View?

The combination of Pano and Unidesk can eliminate the need for VMware View if you only want to offer access to virtual desktops through Pano devices.

VMware View comes in 2 flavors – VMware View Enterprise, which includes brokering only, and VMware View Premier, which includes View Composer (image management), Linked Clones (SAN storage savings), and ThinApp (application isolation and delivery).

If you are using Pano Logic and Unidesk together, and your users will access their vSphere-hosted desktops only from a Pano device, you don’t need either flavor of VMware View.  Pano provides basic brokering capabilities and Unidesk provides superior capabilities in single image management, SAN storage savings (as well as the option to use local storage), application delivery (delivering apps ThinApp can’t), and profile and persona management (including the unique ability to sustain any user customization – even user-installed applications – through patches or updates to Microsoft Windows). 

Customers who need to provide access to virtual desktops through devices other than Pano (e.g. thin clients or PCs) often choose to use VMware View Enterprise as the broker, Unidesk as the management platform, and Pano as the endpoint device.