Qumranet Displays Hosted Desktop Virtualization By VSM News Staff published: Wednesday, July 23 2008
At
IBM System X & BladeCenter Technical Conference.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 23, 2008 - Qumranet,
the commercial sponsor of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), will display its
Solid ICE desktop virtualization solution at the upcoming IBM System X &
BladeCenter Technical Conference in San Diego from July 28-30.
Solid ICE provides enterprises with the benefits of
centralized desktops while delivering a superior end-user experience including
the ability to run multiple monitors, high-quality video streaming, VoIP and
video-conferencing. The Qumranet virtualization software can reduce desktop
cost of ownership by more than 50 percent.
Qumranet is an IBM Business Partner and will show its
software in a situation where the user is running four displays -- something no
other hosted desktop virtualization can handle with required performance.
"The IBM conference is an ideal place to demonstrate
the capabilities of our Solid ICE desktop virtualization software," said
Benny Schnaider, CEO, Qumranet. "IBM servers are a great platform on which
IT managers can deliver a virtual desktop experience that is as good as the
physical computers that employees currently use."
About Solid ICE
Solid ICE is a high-performance and scalable desktop
virtualization product. With Solid ICE, the user's desktop runs in a KVM
virtual machine on a server in the data center, and the user connects to it
using a thin client (or a re-purposed PC) via SPICE, Qumranet's remote
rendering technology. SPICE is optimized for virtual desktop environments and
provides users with a user-experience, indistinguishable from that of a
physical PC. Solid ICE supports multiple monitors, bi-directional audio/video
for video conference calling and VoIP, high-quality video streaming and USB
support. Solid ICE has been purposefully built for desktops, and compared to
other retrofitted server virtualization solutions in the market, offers a user
experience indistinguishable from that of a physical PC, a 3 to 4 times
improvement in cost-performance, and greatly simplified management.
About Qumranet
Qumranet is a leading virtualization technology company. Its
hosted desktop virtualization product, Solid ICE, is used by several Global
2000 enterprises around the world to significantly improve the manageability,
security and policy enforcement for their desktop environments.
Qumranet is also the maintainer of the open source
virtualization project KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and along with an
industry consortium, comprising companies like IBM, Intel, AMD, Red-Hat, Novell
and many others, is committed to advancing KVM to be the industry's
standard virtualization platform.
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