Provision Networks Optimizes The Virtual Desktop User Experience By VSM News Staff published: Wednesday, September 10 2008
Experience-Optimized Protocol Enables Broad Adoption of
desktop Virtualization.
RESTON, Va., Sept. 10, 2008 - Provision Networks, a division
of Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT), today unveiled its
Experience Optimization Pack (EOP). Quest EOP is an
extension suite for Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol
(RDP) aimed to eliminate the adoption barriers of hosted
desktop virtualization in all use case scenarios over both
local area and wide area networks.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promises to change the
way organizations deliver applications and deploy desktops.
It promises to change the way users will compute, ensuring
higher levels of productivity, desktop and application
availability, and higher levels of security, while lowering
the cost and complexity of managing the desktop
infrastructure. Technical challenges centered around the end-
user experience have, however, so far impeded the broad
adoption of desktop virtualization.
Introducing Quest Experience Optimization Pack
Hosted desktop technologies such as VDI, Blade PCs or even
presentation virtualization rely on RDP to provide access
and connectivity. RDP, however, does not deliver a PC-like,
or even a near PC-like, experience. Quest's EOP embraces and
extends RDP and delivers the optimal user experience for LAN
and WAN connectivity. Quest EOP:
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Delivers support for bi-directional audio, enabling organizations
to deploy dictation, collaboration and certain VOIP applications.
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Accelerates the delivery of multimedia content such as
recorded webcasts and web-based training from remote virtualized
desktops and applications.
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Dramatically improves the remoting of graphics including
browser and Flash acceleration.
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Eliminates the effects of network latency which can cause
havoc even for simple applications such as word processing.
"VDI certainly holds tremendous promise in the way desktop
management and deployment is accomplished. However, the
user experience will dictate the feasibility of a desktop
virtualization project," said Andi Mann, research director,
Enterprise Management Associates. "Quest is on target by
choosing to improve this user experience which enables
organizations to virtualize more desktop scenarios spanning
the enterprise."
Availability
Quest's EOP is available immediately as an optional add-on
to the Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite v5.10, the
most mature enterprise multi-platform desktop virtualization
solution. Quest desktop virtualization technologies
including Quest EOP will be showcased next week at VMworld
2008 in Las Vegas in booth # 1039.
Major enhancements announced in the 5.10 version include:
- Desktop Lifecycle Management and Automation
- Automated Server Provisioning
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Advanced Power Management for Physical and Virtual PCs
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Real-time Process Enumeration
- Quest Experience Optimization Pack
"The last-mile has always been the most difficult obstacle
to overcome," said Paul Ghostine, vice president and general
manager of Quest Software's Provision Networks division.
"We have come a long way towards shattering the barriers of
mass adoption and extending our leadership in the rapidly
emerging desktop virtualization market."
Partner and Customer Feedback
"The Virtual Access Suite has long offered the most
comprehensive feature-set and enterprise scalability in
production deployments," said Aaron Schneider, director of
solution engineering at The Pinnacle Group, a leading
virtualization consultancy in California. "The new
experience optimization technologies offered by Quest will
certainly enable organizations to departmental deployments
into enterprise-wide deployments."
"With more than 700 virtualized desktops across eleven
locations, adequate performance over wide area network links
is crucial to user satisfaction," said David Herr, CTO and
director of TAG Integrated Technologies and a Quest
customer. "Supporting the entire application set which makes
up our user workspace, including graphics-rich and
multimedia content, proved to be impossible without the
Quest experience optimized protocol."
"With a keen focus on desktop virtualization, we have been
involved with hundreds of VDI projects and realize that an
appropriate user experience is essential to success," said
Cameron Merrett, managing director of TecDem Ltd, a
Provision Networks Certified Solutions Advisor in the UK.
"Quest EOP delivers an unmatched user experience that's
practically indiscernible from that of a local PC."
About Provision Networks
Provision Networks, a division of Quest Software, is a
global provider of presentation and desktop virtualization
solutions. Provision Networks solutions embrace and extend
the Microsoft Terminal Services platform and Virtual
Infrastructure platforms from VMware, Virtual Iron,
Parallels, and Microsoft, delivering resilient, scalable and
dynamic on-demand desktop deployment and application
delivery for enterprises worldwide. With a world-class
client list, comprised of some of the world's largest
commercial enterprises, and government organizations,
Provision Networks is the most trusted name in presentation
and desktop infrastructure virtualization. To learn more
about Provision Networks and our enterprise access
solutions, please visit us at www.ProvisionNetworks.com
About Quest Software, Inc.
Quest Software, Inc., a leading enterprise systems
management vendor, delivers innovative products that help
organizations get more performance and productivity from
their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and
virtual environments. Through a deep expertise in IT
operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest
helps more than 90,000 customers worldwide meet higher
expectations for enterprise IT. Quest provides customers
with client management as well as server and desktop
virtualization solutions through its subsidiaries,
ScriptLogic and Vizioncore. Quest Software can be found in
offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.
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