XDS Announces New Line-up of SIMtone Appliances and Beta Availability of SIMtone VDU Virtual Desktop Server.Appliances Support New Microsoft Vista See Windows Vista. Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD VECD Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktops (Windows) ) Licensing DURHAM, N.C. -- XDS XDS Cross-enterprise Document Sharing XDS Extended Data Service (television data transmission service) XDS X/Open Directory Services XDS Xerox Data Systems XDS X-Ray Spectrometer Detector System XDS Existing Data Study XDS Xml Data Synthesis , Inc., a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. targeting the digital virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. market, today announced the beta availability of the SIMtone[TM] VDU (Video Display Unit) Same as VDT. VDU - Visual Display Unit [TM] Virtual Desktop Server, and the general availability of a series of new SIMtone data center and SNAP appliances. Designed to connect and interoperate via the company's SIMtone VDU digital dial tone - which provides seamless and secure access to corporate Windows desktop environments from any unmanaged connection inside or outside a firewall - these new products support Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 2003, XP, Vista and Linux operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . The SIMtone VDU Virtual Desktop Server offers a highly scalable virtual hosted desktop server that connects directly to the SIMtone VDU service, and supports all newly announced VDU features including USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. services. The solution provides end-users with the same level of productivity and usability associated with laptops at a fraction of the cost, seamlessly available to them on any PC or thin client, anywhere, and without any security concerns. The SIMtone VDU Virtual Desktop Server supports the new Microsoft Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) licensing model. The VDU Standard Enterprise Connector is the data center appliance needed to connect existing shared or virtual hosted desktop servers to the SIMtone VDU service. The Enterprise Connector now scales to 1,000 users and is included at no additional charge with the price of the SIMtone VDU service. The third data center device - Enterprise Connector HA - is the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. version of the Enterprise Connector, and is designed to support multi-homed, seamless failover desktop servers for mission-critical configurations. Two new SNAP (SIMtone Network Access Point) appliances are also available. End-users can now securely access their desktop via any browser with the newly announced WebSNAP, which provides browser-based SIMtone VDU service access from public PCs and private networks, such as client offices or hotel kiosks, in addition to using the downloadable SoftSNAP application for Windows XP and Vista. From the convenience of a memory stick, the new USB SafeSNAP can easily plug into any PC and automatically convert it into a dedicated SNAP device. This is ideal for remote users that may be connecting in vulnerable locations including hotels, airports, or where Web browsing is restricted. "We expect the announcement of our expanded lineup of SIMtone-compliant SNAP and data center appliances and servers to exceed our customers' virtual desktop computing needs," said Tim Mason, EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition Operations at XDS, Inc. "These new appliances require no additional equipment or software, and are plug and play right out of the box without any user or IT administrator configuration required." For more information on the beta of the SIMtone VDU Virtual Desktop Server and generally available SIMtone appliances, please visit www.simtonevdu.com. About XDS, Inc. XDS, Inc. is a privately held company targeting the digital virtualization market. Backed by Kodiak Venture Partners and Motorola Ventures, XDS developed the first "digital dial tone" service. Comparable to standard telephone service, its patent-pending service, SIMtone, provides a digital dial tone that is pervasively available across broadband networks, and automatically provisions and manages network and session connectivity, security and devices. The SIMtone can be used to deliver digital services such as desktop environments, applications and media content to all types of non-processing devices, as well as PCs, thin clients, mobile phones, set-top boxes and PDAs. For more information, visit: www.xdsinc.net. SIMtone and VDU are trademarks of XDS, Inc. |
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