Press Release: Liquidware Labs unveils Stratusphere™ 4.2 – Visibility to Accelerate VDI Assessment and Infrastructure Readiness
For Immediate Release:
ALPHARETTA, GA, June 9th, 2009 - Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL), the market leader in virtual desktop application assessment and diagnostics, today announced the availability of Stratusphere™ 4.2, a software solution delivering focused visibility into network, user, application, and desktop activity dramatically reducing the technical and financial risks associated with migrating to VDI.
Adding Stratusphere to your environment provides physical and virtual desktop visibility, much like Layer 7 deep packet inspection, without the overhead, cost and complexity - while being easily deployed as an open format virtual appliance. The solution is compatible with all leading VDI platforms including those from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft.
Stratusphere and Connector ID™ deliver network, user and, application visibility inside desktops, networks, and storage systems. Patented technology automatically inventories and tracks network connections, users, applications and devices, gathering critical metrics for assessment and diagnostics. Fingerprints placed into the header of each TCP/IP packet allow measurement of the network and application response times associated with each user and desktop for deep visibility, including RDP, ICA, PCoIP and other VDI streaming protocols. Within minutes Stratusphere’s patented process, combined with service level policies, delivers real-time visibility in a virtual desktop and datacenter environment and begins to deliver user experience focused metrics for physical machines, virtual machines and related infrastructure and endpoints.
Liquidware Labs Inc. Announce Availability of Stratusphere™
"Our irrefutable method of measuring Network User Application Response Time (nuART™) is extremely
relevant in gauging potential VDI candidates and user experience," said David Bieneman CEO of
Liquidware Labs. "Stratusphere further excels by combining these metrics to create a VDI Fit™ and VDI
UX™ rating identifying good, fair and poor candidates for VDI and providing a measurement to gauge
and keep user experience at a constant."
"The ability to truly forecast how a desktop will run in a virtual environment and how to scale the infrastructure to support VDI is critical to building an ROI model that justifies implementing a VDI solution," stated John Ross, CTO of GreenPages Technology Solutions - a VMware Premier Partner and VMware's Desktop Virtualization Partner of the Year. "Liquidware Labs' Stratusphere has all the elements required to de-risk and accelerate VDI deployments. GreenPages is proud to be one of the first Liquidware Labs authorized partners to take this unique solution to market."
The key features of Stratusphere include:
- VDI and Physical Machine, Network, Infrastructure, and Application Assessments – move swiftly from proof of concept to production – while ensuring end user experience
- User Tracking and Problem Solving – once virtualized identify users experiencing or contributing to unexplained systems slow down
- Virtual Application Compatibility – assess application activity and profile application resource footprint
- Support Physical Desktops and Servers – provides application and user visibility and detailed configuration information from the desktop to the SAN
- ART/NRT Interdependency Maps – gain visibility into application response times (ART) and network response times (NRT), application network traffic, Resources Provisioned vs. Resources Consumed – visibility to fine tune your TCO and ROI
- Proactive Trending and Capacity Planning – allowing projects to be successfully extended to scale
- VDI FIT™ and VDI UX™ (User Experience) Ratings – identify which users should be considered for VDI and ensure a consistent and acceptable desktop SLA
Liquidware Labs Inc. Announce Availability of Stratusphere™
"Legacy methods for deploying, securing, and managing desktops have led to a huge interest in VDI. However, without proper insight into what you have, and what you use – a migration towards virtual desktops can be risky. Our VDI Assessment and Diagnostics offerings enable projects to move from pilot to production quickly and Stratusphere remains in place to deliver ongoing visibility into user experience." commented Tyler Rohrer COO and Founder, Liquidware Labs, "With Stratusphere we provide result focused metrics that enable many level of desktop solutions and support architects to provide quality assessment services using our repeatable methodology to identify 'yes or no' candidates for your VDI solution."
Stratusphere is available now from a select group of virtualization partners and is priced at $49 per user. A desktop enterprise licensing agreement is available. To learn more click here, or visit www.liquidwarelabs.com.
ABOUT LIQUIDWARE LABS INC.
Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL) is the market leader in virtual desktop and application assessments, bringing
a completely new and innovative approach to accelerating the adoption and consumption of virtual
desktop infrastructures (VDI). Described by analysts and the industry as providing the "on ramp to VDI",
LWL provides a combination of software and consulting methodology to intelligently assess desktop and
application viability for virtualization. The company's Stratusphere™ platform provides organizations
previously unattainable visibility into the configuration, usage and performance of their virtual (and
physical) desktop infrastructure and deployments. The LWL leadership team is comprised of
virtualization industry veterans that collectively have skills within professional services, software
development, virtualization assessments and deployments and have been selling and marketing
virtualization since 2002. LWL products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a
global network of certified partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.
