VMware Alliance targets desktop virtualisation

VMWARE said it and its mates had formed the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance.

The Alliance, they said, brings together hardware, software and service providers to build joint virtual desktop offerings.

VMware's Virtual Desktop is a tool to allow IT administrators to host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines.

"Virtualization," said Brian Byun, vice president of products and alliances at VMware, "is transforming the entire desktop into a server hosted environment that is always on, dynamically scalable and centrally secured and managed."

He said the Alliance would accelerate the development and adoption of desktop virtualization.

Here's a list of VMware's mates in the Alliance: Altiris, AppStream, Ardence, ATOS Origin, Check Point Software Technologies, Citrix, ClearCube Technology, Devon IT, Dunes Technologies, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Leostream, NComputing, NEC, Platform Computing, Propero, Provision Networks, Route1, Softricity, Sun, Wyse Technology and Zeus Technology. µ

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