Unidesk Ships Version 1.0

"We're implementing Unidesk with VMware View and vSphere because it helps us achieve our strategic objectives. The healthcare and research infrastructure of the future demands access to resources anytime and anyplace; persistent VDI desktops play a key role in maximizing faculty, staff, and student mobility. Unidesk makes this possible, without a significant increase in storage. Unidesk also eliminates a lot of patching, provisioning, and repair time that can be better spent on higher value services."

"I am very impressed by Unidesk’s layering technology, which to me is a VDI game changer. Our end users have significant say over what they put on their desktops, so we need a solution that allows us to deploy personal virtual machines to users while reducing storage and management costs. Unidesk, together with VMware View, will allow me to address all of our needs for desktop personalization, application deployment, and patching of desktops."

"We started investigating VDI as a way to centralize desktop delivery, and we quickly realized a new challenge was going to be how to keep costs down on the storage side if we were going to hand out customized virtual desktops to meet the requirements of students and faculty. We also have to package and deliver lots of applications for our end users and labs, often on short notice, and many of them we’ve had trouble virtualizing. Unidesk’s layering technology solves all these problems."

“Unidesk will be a critical component to the success of our VDI implementation. As a structural engineering and design consulting firm, our employees depend heavily on their desktops to deliver business results, and they need the flexibility to install applications and make other necessary customizations. We selected Unidesk to support this personalization, and reliably deliver the latest Windows patches and applications without disrupting user productivity.”

“I can now custom-build lab and end user desktops without leaving my office, and rely on Unidesk’s layering ability to dynamically combine the right gold image of Microsoft Windows with the right applications I’ve assigned. From the user side, our students and faculty are knowledge workers of the highest order who expect their virtual desktops to be readily available with the applications they need, including applications they install themselves. Unidesk makes this personalization possible.”

“Integrating Unidesk with the Leostream Connection Broker on top of our VMware virtualization infrastructure was effortless. We validated how Unidesk separates the Windows operating system, service packs, applications and user customizations into layers which can then be combined to create dynamic desktop images. We’ll be able to further simplify VDI image management, respond faster to our users’ desktop and application needs, and save on storage as we expand our production VDI deployment.”

"We were so impressed with Unidesk’s approach to managing virtual desktops that we signed up to offer the Unidesk solution. We’re at the forefront of many VDI projects, and the ability to simultaneously deliver full personalization, storage savings, and efficient image management in a single interface is what customers have been waiting for. The combination of VMware vSphere, VMware View, and Unidesk will now help these customers capture more of the benefits of desktop virtualization.”

“We began working with Unidesk early on because it helps our customers simultaneously address management, personalization, and storage – three of the biggest barriers to VDI adoption. Unidesk is an important solution that enables us to deliver a VMware View user experience that’s as good as, if not better, than what users are accustomed to on their physical PCs, while giving IT all the tools they need to maintain complete desktop control.”

“We’ve been at the forefront of desktop virtualization for many years, and it’s gratifying to see the market now evolving with solutions like Pano Logic and Unidesk that build on VMware’s solid virtualization foundation. VDI is a lot more compelling when you can show a CAPEX and OPEX reduction that makes virtual desktops less expensive to purchase and operate than PCs. The strong ROI offered by Pano Logic and Unidesk is just one of the reasons we’re offering both products to our customers.”

"We’re pleased to work with Unidesk, whose solutions add value to our customers’ VMware View™ deployments. Dynamic desktop composition represents an advance in client management technology and can help accelerate growth for virtual desktops in cases where the ability to personalize the user experience is needed. Unidesk’s layering technology is an innovative example of this type of solution and we look forward to collaborating with Unidesk to enhance the virtual desktop experience for VMware View and VMware vSphere™ customers."

"Our mission at Pano Logic is to make desktop virtualization simple and affordable, and Unidesk strengthens both of these value points for our customers. Unidesk’s unique ability to offer end users 100% personalization vastly expands the addressable market for our zero client solution and will hasten the move toward desktop centralization, benefiting both companies. We look forward to working with Unidesk on many more joint customer opportunities."

"Leostream’s vendor-neutral connection broker made it possible for the Université de Rennes 2 to integrate crucial, but disparate data center systems, and apply the right access policies so that students and faculty can connect to desktop images. With Unidesk, the university can update these desktop images much more simply and end users can more effectively personalize their desktops. Together, Leostream and Unidesk help deliver on the promise of VDI."