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Quest Software Delivers Major Update To Virtual Desktop Management Platform

By ChannelWorld Bureau Tue, Dec 22, 2009

Quest Software has announced the availability of the new version of Quest vWorkspace, a desktop virtualization solution for provisioning, management and use of virtual desktops. In addition to its support of the VMware platform, vWorkspace reportedly also now supports VMware Linked Clones, which reduce shared storage disk space requirements. According to he company, vWorkspace manages, provisions and brokers connections, transforming the desktop infrastructure into an on-demand service with optimized user experience for LAN and WAN.

Simon Pearce, Division VP and General Manager- Desktop Virtualization Group, Quest, said,  “Quest continues to give customers the flexibility and advanced features they need to build the virtual desktop solution that best suits their business requirements. Regardless of their platform choices or user types, customers can simplify their virtual desktop infrastructure with Quest, while significantly enhancing manageability and lowering infrastructure and storage costs. Quest vWorkspace delivers the building blocks customers need to simplify the provisioning, management and use of virtual desktops.”

Key new features include flash multimedia acceleration, support for VMware linked clones, provisioning of virtual desktops from a master image and extended platform support for Windows 7; Windows 2008 and 2008 R2; Windows Vista; System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2; and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers (x86 and x64).

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