Liquidware Labs Granted VCE Vblock Certification

ATLANTA, June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation solutions, today announced that it has received full certification by the VCE (Virtual Computing Environment) Company on the VCE Vblock™ solution stack for its award winning ProfileUnity™ and Stratusphere™ solutions.  Many industry observers agree that the combined solution from VMware, Cisco, and EMC is poised to bring increased performance, density, and lower costs of ownership to organizations adopting and expanding Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

VCE was formed last year by Cisco, VMware and EMC to bring to market Vblock platforms and solutions, the industry's first completely integrated IT offering to combine virtualization, networking, computing, storage, security and management technologies. These pre-configured, integrated technologies take complexity and risk out of deploying virtualized data center solutions and future private cloud deployments.

While the professional services organizations of VMware, Cisco, and EMC have standardized on Stratusphere FIT™ - the assessment and design offering from Liquidware Labs, the certification of  Stratusphere UX™ by VCE is a significant event for end user organizations interested in ensuring and validating user experience, tackling performance optimization and troubleshooting, as well as pro-actively alerting on potential infrastructure challenges.

"Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX™ is a great solution to validate and support the delivery of a quality user experience in VDI environments," said Francis Czekalski, Sr. Enterprise Consultant for Green Pages, a national channel partner of Liquidware Labs, VMware, Cisco, and EMC. "Stratusphere provides us with the ability to implement VMs for customers based on users, groups, or virtual machine type, combined with robust reporting which allows our team to easily identify performance challenges within VDI infrastructures before they become detrimental to user experience."

Because VDI often includes various disparate IT team members — from the help desk, to the applications team, to the networking, data-center, and storage teams — VCE recognized the performance validation breadth and depth available in Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX offering, which helps to ensure that all departments have read-only access to critical metrics to confirm the successful delivery of virtual desktop assets.

"Legacy tools solve legacy problems. Liquidware Labs solutions are purpose-built for the way modern desktop administrators and virtualization teams are deploying desktops and applications. From licensing to functionality, Stratusphere and ProfileUnity are perfectly matched to a VCE infrastructure," said Jason Mattox, CTO, Liquidware Labs. "Our subscription-based licenses for assessment, migration, and validation of user experience, are proven to mitigate risk, speed adoption, and improve user satisfaction as companies onramp users and applications to VCE at the lowest possible cost."

Organizations currently evaluating or deploying Vblock solutions from VMware, Cisco, and EMC are encouraged to reach out to [email protected] to learn more about how Liquidware Labs solutions can help them be successful in their virtual desktop and application projects. Download a free trial version of Stratusphere or ProfileUnity today at www.LiquidwareLabs.com

About VCE

VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving time to market for our customers. VCE, through the Vblock platform, delivers the industry's first completely integrated IT offering with end-to-end vendor accountability. VCE's pre-packaged solutions are available through an extensive partner network, and cover horizontal applications, vertical industry offerings, and application development environments, allowing customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating and managing IT infrastructure. For more information, go to www.vce.com.

About Liquidware Labs

Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. The company's Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been described by analysts as the industry's first 'On-Ramp to VDI', providing a complete methodology and software that enables organizations to decouple users and applications from the operating system and to cost-effectively plan, migrate, manage and validate the user experience for next generation desktop infrastructure.  Liquidware Labs products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a global network of certified partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.

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