Pivot3 Announces Validated Support for VMware's Branch Office Desktop Solution

(MENAFNEditorial) BARCELONA - Wednesday, October 10th 2012 Completes validation process to accelerate VMware View® deployments in Branch Offices with enterprise-class VDI in a simple, scalable, and affordable appliance VMworld Europe 2012 Pivot3, the leading provider of converged storage and compute appliances, today announced full support for the VMware's Branch Office Desktop validated solution architecture. This solution provides a validated and optimized solution for organizations looking to cost-effectively and reliably support remote branch desktop deployments that are centrally configured and managed, yet have locally deployed performance. The solution is uniquely designed to support the branch office requirements for full (uncompressed) desktop deployments. VMware provides all of the centralized image management through VMware Mirage™ and VMware vCenter™ Server while Pivot3 provides the local branch appliance "View-in-a-box" infrastructure. "Branch office desktops present a key opportunity for desktop virtualization," said Mason Uyeda, director, technical and solutions marketing, end user computing, VMware. "With VMware's latest branch office solution and Pivot3's vSTAC VDI appliances, customers are able to have a compelling, high-performance branch office solution that is simple, scalable and affordable." The Pivot3 vSTAC VDI appliance is a purpose-built and tuned enterprise-ready VDI "building block". Pivot3 vSTAC VDI appliances unify storage and servers. Remote or branch office IT administrators familiar with standard servers and Ethernet are able to deploy Pivot3 vSTAC VDI appliances, simply and quickly (within minutes not hours or days). The VMware Branch Office Desktop validation by Pivot3 includes architecture support for the latest version of VMware View®, VMware vCenter™ Operations Manager for View, and for enhanced endpoint security working with VMware vShield™, and VMware Mirage. "The ability to centrally manage desktops yet provide for local performance is a huge breakthrough opportunity for any branch office operation," said Olivier Thierry, chief marketing officer of Pivot3. "Pivot3's ability to support the latest VMware Mirage™ technology with our Pivot3 vSTAC VDI appliance delivers the best of both worlds to customers in need of a robust branch office VDI solution, namely centralized image management of simple-to-deploy localized appliances." Solution Availability and Pricing The Pivot3 vSTAC VDI solution for VMware Branch Office Desktop is available immediately. Supporting Resources For a test-drive of the Pivot3 vSTAC VDI Mobile Secure Desktop solution, visit http://pivot3.com/test-drive/ where you can test drive the Pivot3 vSTAC VDI MSD solution that includes all of the latest VMware technology including; View, vCOPs, vShield as well as Trend Micro's Deep Security. Find the latest news and information about Pivot3 vSTAC™ VDI and P Cubed online: Desktop virtualization whitepaper Product information VMware Reference Architecture Test Drive Pivot3 Pivot3 VDI Configurator VMware View POC Solutions VMware Rapid Desktop Program Support Twitter

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