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Intelligent Desktop Virtualization. A Smarter Approach to VDI. Who are we? Virtual Computer is the market leader in intelligent desktop virtualization .
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Intelligent Desktop Virtualization A Smarter Approach to VDI © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Investor Presentation, Company Confidential
Who are we? Virtual Computer is the market leader in intelligent desktop virtualization. Our product NxTop™ combinesclient-hosted VDI with centralized management that uniquely delivers desktop management, cost reduction and user experience benefits that can only be enabled through virtualization. © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc.
What do we do? By combining and enhancing Xen™ the market’s most broadly adopted type-1 hypervisor with a powerful central management system, Virtual Computer is able to offer full control of the end-point to IT and new capabilities to users Put simply we.......... • Make PCs more manageable, reliable and secure. • Dramatically lower the cost of PC management • Provide the end user freedom and flexibility © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc.
Discussion Today • The Challenge • Solution Overview • Industry Validation • Technical Innovations • Demonstrations © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Investor Presentation, Company Confidential
Tension Between Users & IT End Users IT Pros • Wants Freedom and Flexibility • Generation Y Mentality • Productivity/Performance • All my stuff in one place • I want to use this device...... • My PC broke.............. • Wants Manageability, Security & Reliability • Controlled Network Access • Locked down OS • Data Protection/Security • Predictable Configurations • Consistent SLAs NxTop™ delivers balance andharmony © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc.
Unbundling PC Elements Operating System Policy User Data PCs Today are Glued Together ManagementAgents Hardware Applications Managed Platform Hardware Operating System Virtual Computer Breaks them Apart Policy Applications User Data Component isolation means moreFlexibility, Manageability, Reliability and Security © 2010 Virtual Computer Inc. – Company Confidential
10X © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Investor Presentation, Company Confidential
Benefit: >90%Reduction in Infrastructure Cost versus Server Hosted VDI ManagementServer ManagementServer StorageArrays Execution Servers Network Switches VirtualComputer Server Hosted: VMware, Citrix © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Company Confidential
Discussion Today • The Challenge • Solution Overview • Industry Validation • Technical Innovations • Demonstrations © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Investor Presentation, Company Confidential
Manage thousands of computers as easy as managing one… Migrate to latest OS is easy. I am just going to push the OS down to everybody. OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS Application OS OS OS Roll out an application is simple as 1-2-3. APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP
Centrally Manage 1000’s of PCs as Easily as One Provide a Single Master Image Fail-safe Patching Updates System & Apps Snapback and Rollback AES 256 Encryption Provision 1000s of Windows PCs Back-up and Rapid Restore
Intelligent Desktop Virtualization © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Investor Presentation, Company Confidential
Discussion Today • The Challenge • Solution Overview • Industry Validation • Technical Innovations • Demonstrations © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Investor Presentation, Company Confidential
2009 2010 NxTop Industry Validation 2011 Awards Analysts “Prediction: 90% of VDI will be client based” – Brian Madden, brianmadden.com “Virtual Computer wins the race for bare-metal client virtualization.” –Rachel Chalmers, The 451 Group Partners © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Investor Presentation, Company Confidential
Customer Spotlight • “We were seriously considering a server-based VDI solution, but when we tested NxTop we were amazed that we could run it without any major incremental investments in server or network infrastructure.” – Nathan McBride, Executive Director of IT, AMAG Pharmaceuticals • “NxTop will dramatically change the way I deploy and manage desktops, freeing up valuable IT resources and transforming my operation from being reactive to proactive.” – Charles Miller, Town of Lincoln (MA) © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc.
Discussion Today • The Challenge • Solution Overview • Industry Validation • Technical Innovations • Demonstrations © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Investor Presentation, Company Confidential
The Evolved PC Stack • NxTop & Application Virtualization: Full Isolation Applications Personalization Operating System Hardware • What does this mean? • In the event of a corrupt OS, application or hardware failure • “When you tell the user to reboot , it will actually mean something” © 2010 Virtual Computer Inc. – Company Confidential
Engine Architecture • Type-1 Hypervisor • Based on Xen with extensive modifications to support PCs • Fully virtualized platform • Secure communication to server infrastructure • Quick-boot Linux VM (NxTop Connect with ) Center Virtual Machine #N Virtual Machine #1 11 User Data User Data WAN/LAN Engine Applications Applications Windows 7 Management and Control Domain (Dom0) NxTop ConnectServices Domain (DomS) Win XP Virtual HW … Virtual HW Hypervisor (Open Source) Hardware © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Company Confidential
Shared Virtual Machines are Layered One-to-many from server Patch Center Discard onreboot/patch Snapshotfor backup COW COW SystemVHD UserVHD LocalVHD Persistent Local Data (not backed up) Page.sys, temporary internet files, search indexes, .ost files Persistent User Data Backed-up on server for instant re-provisioning Shared System Disk One to many: patch once, publish many © 2010 Virtual Computer Inc. – Company Confidential
NxTop Center Architecture Central Server SQL API Console Center LDAP Control File System Repository ISSCI Hyper-V © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Company Confidential
NxTop Enterprise: Hierarchical Mgmt • Remote Caching Server • Optimized for low-bandwidth/WAN environments • At Remote Office • Local LAN operations for publishing/backups • One copy of OS image and patches • Backups stored locally in Remote Office • At Central Office • Single view of NxTop Environment through NxTop Center Central Server Center Center WAN Remote Server LAN © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Company Confidential
NxTop Engine: End-User Experience**Product can be configured to bypass this interface NxTop Connect (when enabled) Local VM NetworkStatus MessageCenter PowerManagement On/Off Control Panel © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc.
Terminal ServicesSession (RDP) NxTop Connect Workspace • Integrated workspace with “Apple-like” dock • Applications configured by central management server • Xen Receiver, RDP, Google Chrome • Inter-VM shared file system • Print server (future) GoogleChrome Browser NxTop ConnectServices Domain (DomS) Skype Application Dock © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc.
Demo © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc.