Liquidware Labs Launches Stratusphere 4.5

By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, October 26 2009

New Version Provides Support for VMware View 4, XenDesktop 4 and Windows 7; LWL Continues Innovation with Fourth Patent Awarded from the USPTO

ALPHARETTA, GA, October 26th, 2009 - Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL), the leader in User Experience Management for next generation desktops, today announced the availability of version 4.5 of its flagship product, Stratusphere, and the award of its fourth patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

LWL is seeing a huge upsurge in the deployments of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) and hosted virtual desktops (HVD) based on its award-winning assessment and service level assurance solution Stratusphere. The latest 4.5 version includes significant feature enhancements to enable businesses to thoroughly understand what they have, what they're using, and what they need to move to VDI; including:

• Support for VMware View 4, Citrix XenDesktop 4, Microsoft Windows® 7
• Integration of ProfileUnity in the Stratusphere Hub - LWL's profile management and user configuration solution
• New and powerful assessment and diagnostic dashboards
• Query driven analytic reports, trend analysis and capacity planning
• Correlation of user, desktop OS and VMware ESX Server performance metrics
• Plug-in to allow dynamic query from within Excel (or any other 3rd party tool that supports ODBC)
• Publically available evaluation download

"Many of the largest, next generation VDI deployments include Stratusphere as part of the solution to drive the most optimal user experience and guarantee service level assurances.We continue to provide superior levels of granularity in our Stratusphere product to allow organizations to assess and diagnose both their physical and virtual desktop environments alike. Stratusphere allows you to "right-size" your infrastructure for VDI and next generation desktop designs - both from the user and application perspective - bringing cost-savings to organizations and serious productivity gains to users," commented Jason E. Smith, vice president product marketing, LWL. "Combined with our latest patent, we continue to innovate in the VDI/HVD space."

The latest patent awarded to LWL from the US Patent Office (number 7,591,001 issued September 15th) covers LWL's innovation that embeds the health status of a Connector IDTM key enabled machine into each packet. This health status is established by comparing the existing configuration, usage or performance of the Connector ID enabled machines (either physical or virtual) to previously defined IT policies. Stratusphere can provide real-time audits of the health status of these machines using the network, along with controlling how machines connect to the network or to specific servers and applications based on their health status.

To evaluate the latest version of Stratusphere, please download here.

About Liquidware Labs Inc.

Liquidware LabsTM (LWL) is the leader in User Experience Management for next generation desktops including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. The company's StratusphereTM and ProfileUnityTM solutions have been described by analysts as the industry's first "On-Ramp to VDI" by providing complete methodology and software that enable organizations to cost-effectively plan, migrate, and manage their next generation desktop infrastructure with best practices in mind. LWL's comprehensive solutions provide Assessment, Personalization Management, User Configuration, and Service Level Assurance. LWL products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a global network of certified partners.  Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.