Realizing the benefits of hosted virtual desktops

Sponsor: Qumranet
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Brian Gammage, Navin R. Thadani
Type: Video (36 minutes)

Wouldn't it be great to centralize your desktops and get the benefits of improved manageability, higher security, and more granular policy enforcement WITHOUT having to re-architect your application infrastructure?

Well now you can. Watch this Webcast and learn how hosted desktop virtualization offers these advantages and can enable your enterprise to significantly reduce desktop TCO.

What are the challenges of deploying desktop virtualization today? What areas should you consider before rolling out this technology? And how do you realize the economic promise of desktop virtualization without impacting the end-user experience?

In this program, you’ll hear the answers to those questions and more from two leading experts in the industry, Brian Gammage, Vice President and Fellow at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Navin Thadani, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Qumranet Inc.

Hear how Qumranet, a leading virtualization technology company created Solid ICE, the highest performing, fully integrated, hosted desktop virtualization solution. Watch this program and learn about a solution that enables your enterprise to host Windows virtual desktops in KVM virtual machines on servers in the corporate data center, and allows you to connect to them via a remote rendering technology, SPICE. Solid ICE provides a user experience that is indistinguishable from that of a physical PC. It supports multiple monitors, bi-directional audio and video for VoIP soft-phones and video-conferencing, USB support etc. See for yourself. Watch this program now.

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About Brian Gammage

Brian Gammage is a vice president and Research Fellow with Gartner, where he works in the Infrastructure and Operations area as part of the Client Computing research team. His areas of specialization include the development of client computing architectures and technology. Mr Gammage is also a leading expert on the development and application of virtualization technology within client computing. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Gammage worked with a number of IT companies, including BMC Software, Olivetti and Hewlett-Packard. Although covering a wide range of activities and technical disciplines, he has specialized in computing hardware and has 20 years of experience in the PC industry.

About Navin R. Thadani
Navin R. Thadani is the Director of Product Management and Marketing at Qumranet. His team is responsible for the overall product strategy and future direction of Qumranet's products. Prior to Qumranet, Navin held several senior management positions at Cisco Systems where he led strategic initiatives around voice over IP and video in the Cable and Connected Home business units. Navin holds an MBA with Honors from The Wharton School of Business, an MS in Economics and Operations Research from Stanford University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pune, India.