-- Venture Capital backing from tier-one firm Austin Ventures announced.
"Austin Ventures is excited to be partnering with Virtual Bridges in the
desktop cloud and VDI market," said Chris Pacitti, General Partner with
Austin Ventures. "We see tremendous potential for disruption and value
creation in the burgeoning desktop Cloud and VDI market space. Virtual
Bridges has demonstrated innovative leadership in delivering not only best-
of-breed VDI but also in combining VDI with managed desktops and
disconnected use. This super-category of Desktop Management Infrastructure,
or DMI, as well as their ability to offer easy-to-use solutions in both the
public and private cloud segments, has made us a committed backer of their
vision."
-- Formally approved as an enhancement to the IBM Global Technology Services
SMART Cloud and SMART Desktop initiatives. VERDE is one of three formal
solution Offerings (in addition to VMware and Citrix) and is recommended
for use cases involving MS-alternative desktops, mixed use cases of MS and
non-MS virtual desktops, as well as where customers are looking for ROI in
under 12 months.
-- Expanding the all-star management team with the addition of Tom Francese
as SVP of Business Development, Tom is the former EVP at Novell and Vice
President Software Group Sales Europe at IBM; Srini Gurrapu, VP of Product
Management, formerly of RingCube Technologies, Moka5, Juniper and
Microsoft; Dr. James Clark, VP, Business Development, Asia Pacific; Dr.
Clark was formerly chairman of DASCOM and President of ATT Unix Systems
Labs, Asia Pacific, and Brad Fidler, VP of Sales, former Director of Sales
at BuildForge.
-- Recognition from esteemed industry analysts including Robin Bloor who
highlighted Virtual Bridges as one of the "Top 10 IT Companies to Watch in
2010," noting that VB was the only significant development in desktop
virtualization in 2009.
-- New Business Partnerships including leading systems integrator ZSL which
has incorporated VERDE into their PowerCube DaaS service offering and new
VERDE Customer engagements at ShvinTech and Northeast Iowa Community
College.
"Virtual Bridges VERDE has become an essential tool in ZSL's PowerCube DaaS
offering," said Shiv Kumar, EVP of ZSL, Inc. "VERDE's power and flexibility
make it a clear choice as a VDI solution."
"VERDE is the perfect balance of functionality, performance, ease of
management, and value to help us meet our remote desktop and small server
virtualization needs," said Lyle Luzum, CIS Director, Northeast Iowa
Community College.
"We needed a virtual training lab environment that can be deployed rapidly
for professional developers seeking emerging technology skills and at the
same time protect our intellectual property," said Chandra Polaku, CEO of
ShvinTech. "KalariSys's VERDE based virtual desktop solution offers us a
secure training space that will transform our business and help us retrain
America."
"2010 is going to be an exciting year for Virtual Bridges as we build off
of the strong validation of 2009 demonstrated by top-tier funding,
expanding customer base, strategic activity with IBM and distinguished
recognition from industry analysts," said Jim Curtin, President and CEO of
Virtual Bridges. "Virtual Bridges' VERDE continues to set the pace for the
industry -- the first to introduce personalized gold master provisioning in
VDI; the first to offer integrated client-side hypervisor for mobile users
and disconnected use; and, most recently, becoming the first to introduce
remote branch replication technology for deploying VDI efficiently in
branch and MSP configurations."
For more information, please contact sales@vbridges.com.
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VERDE Licensing
Virtual Bridges stands by its commitment to be the easiest, most
customer-oriented supplier to deal with in the VDI market by offering VERDE
3.0 with the simplest licensing in the industry offering a complete suite
of capabilities available for one simple, paid-up, per seat price. All of
the components are included in this hassle-free licensing model. VERDE 3.0
is available directly from Virtual Bridges or from various worldwide
partners standalone or as an IBM Client for Smart Work bundle in
partnership with IBM and Canonical and other Linux vendors such as Red Hat
and Novell.
About Virtual Bridges
Virtual Bridges, Inc. develops SMB, enterprise and MSP virtualization
solutions for businesses that use virtualization to create sustainable
business advantage.
VERDE, VERDE SMART Client, VERDE Cloud Branch, VERDE LEAF are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Virtual Bridges, Inc. All other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.
Contact Information: Contact Information: Dan Perlman VP, Marketing 650-265-0140 http://vbridges.com