vWorkspace Release Best of VMworld 2008

Quest is proud to announce the release of vWorkspace 6.0, the next installment of Quest’s award-winning Desktop Virtualization technology. vWorkspace, formerly Virtual Access Suite, is the next-generation desktop management solution spanning multiple hypervisors and desktop deployment models, and delivering the lowest cost of ownership and best-in-class performance.

Quest vWorkspace Download vWorkspace Trial Provisioning and Automation
  • Desktop Automation Management - automates all facets of virtual desktop management, from power management to task scheduling including application deployment and operating system operations
  • Desktop Lifecycle Management - automates the provisioning and mass production of desktops and servers from a single golden image including Active Directory integration
  • Desktop Integrity Management - automates the reversal of the desktop state to its original condition upon reboot
  • Delegated Administration Management - essential for large scale deployments, enables the logical presentation of desktop infrastructure assets in geographic zones, and allows fine-grained delegated administrative responsibility to be shared among staff members
  • Desktop Reclamation Management - automates the deletion of desktops and their removal from Active Directory upon expiration
Experience Optimized Protocol (EOP) = PC-Like User Experience

Comprehensive management capabilities are useless without a strong user experience. Regardless of LAN or WAN connectivity, if virtual desktops and applications cannot deliver a local PC-like experience, the solution is useless. New vWorkspace further extends Quest’s EOP capabilities:

Experience Optimized Protocol
  • Multimedia Acceleration - multimedia content is redirected to both Windows and Linux end-points for local playback
  • Graphics Acceleration - from web content to Flash animations to graphics embedded in applications, performance over the LAN or WAN is enhanced by as much as 800%
  • Latency Reduction - network latency can wreak havoc on applications as simple as word processing. Quest EOP delivers local text echoing ensuring immediate keystroke feedback
  • Bi-Directional Audio - further enhancing the native protocol, Quest EOP enables applications such as dictation, collaboration and VOIP
More User Experience Enhancements

Significant focus on the user experience is critical to the wide adoption of Quest vWorkspace. Whether it’s integrated universal printing capabilities, the USB PDA support, application publishing, or the enhanced multi-monitor support, vWorkspace further extends these essential last-mile features to include:

  • Virtual Profile Management - fifth generation hybrid profile management capability is now available for VDI deployments
  • Virtual USB Management - now any USB device is supported through the remote session on Windows and Linux end-points, including support for isochronous devices such as webcams and headsets
  • Integrated Support for Expand Networks - now native to vWorkspace is the capability to automatically enable the compression and acceleration features of Expand appliances, enabling customers with limited bandwidth at branch offices to support larger numbers of centralized user sessions without having to acquire more bandwidth
  • Integrated support for HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) - now native to vWorkspace is the capability to support and broker HP RGS connections enabling HP customers that have standardized on HP RGS to leverage that investment
Future-Proof Your Investment in Virtual Desktop Management

Not only does Quest vWorkspace support every major hypervisor available, the desktop management platform simultaneously supports and fully integrates and automates application delivery, desktop deployment, and management from all the relevant solutions: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX, Virtual Iron and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers. This unprecedented level of flexibility ensures that customers’ investment in vWorkspace is future-proof. As customers contemplate migrating to more cost-effective next generation solutions such as Microsoft's Hyper-V or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services, they are assured a seamless transition without a rip-and-replace exercise.

"Our research reveals that the uptake for Hyper-V is significant, and that heterogeneous deployments involving Hyper-V will be increasingly common. Quest vWorkspace maximizes the return on investment in desktop virtualization as customers' choices in the underlying platform evolve."

Andi Mann, research director
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

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New to vWorkspace is full integration and automation with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, the unique OS-level server virtualization solution, particularly suited for desktop deployments due to its native scalable single image management capabilities and minimal storage requirements.

"Through complete integration with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, which offers more than three times as many virtual desktops on a physical server as the hypervisor approach, Quest and Parallels can offer customers the most efficient solution to centralizing the management and reducing total cost of ownership of desktop computing."

Serguei Beloussov,
CEO, Parallels

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