Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. The company's Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been described by analysts as the industry's first 'On-Ramp to VDI,' providing a complete methodology and software that enables organizations to decouple users and applications from the operating system and to cost-effectively assess, design, migrate and validate the user experience for next-generation desktop infrastructure. Liquidware Labs products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a global network of certified partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.
Top Reasons for Partners to Work with Liquidware Labs:
- First and still the only company with a complete suite of products to support a desktop transformation lifecycle
- Equip partners with training on proprietary desktop transformation methodology to expertly ramp up on cutting edge desktop technologies
- Patented, award-winning technology designed specifically for virtualized environments
- Cross-platform support for physical desktops, terminal services sessions, and virtual desktops
- Straightforward deployment of solutions as a virtual appliance; no additional backend infrastructure needed
- Solutions are feature-rich and cost-effective, lowering barriers to customer adoption
- Strong partnerships with and highly complementary to virtualization vendors VMware & Citrix
- Strong partnerships with virtual desktop infrastructure partners, including EMC, NetApp, Dell, and Cisco
- Management team with extensive long-term experience and strong commitment to developing unique patented virtualization technologies
How Partners Can Leverage Liquidware Labs’ Proven Methodology:
Liquidware Labs methodology of Assess, Design, Migrate & Validate can lower VAR costs and increasesprofits as follows:
ASSESSMENT:
Partners can save hundreds of man hours by not doing personalinterviews and collecting subjective data as well as only partial data from select group of users. Also the VAR must do some guesswork to complete the assessment which can cause loss of profit and confidence to their client as the project moves forward.
Liquidware Lab’s automated tool, Stratusphere FIT, not only assesses EVERY user but records their current performance as a baseline, and rates every user as GOOD, FAIR or POOR VDI candidate from hundreds of calculated metric comparisons and calculations done behind the scenes.Liquidware Labs also provides a deliverable readout to the partner for them to present to the client on the assessment with all the detail the client needs to understand his environment.
DESIGN:
Without Liquidware Labs Design module more guesswork and hundreds ofnon-billable man hours are used by most VARs to calculate server capacity, storage capacity as well as the “shared image” strategy for the VDI project. But, because of the extensive data collected with the assessment solution, the VAR can use that data to produce a "blueprint" for the partner to build the proper virtual infrastructure with confidence and in a very timely fashion - again saving the partner hundreds of non-billable man hours and more guesswork ultimately leading to more profitable projects and satisfied clients.
MIGRATION:
Another huge savings and benefit to VARs using the Liquidware Labs suite is our automated migration of the users’ settings and data from the physical to the virtual desktop. Normally this process involves many man hours of tedious manual effort to touch each desktop, relying on significant human interaction that can result in errors, potential security breaches with people exposed to private data and loss of productivity as each worker is interrupted during migration. With Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity migration solution, all this can be defined, automated and done behind the scenes to eliminate risk, loss of productivity, and increase the partner's profitability dramatically.
VALIDATION:
The last step in the Liquidware Labsfour-step methodology for transforming desktops from physical to virtual is validating the job was done correctly and that the user experience of the virtual desktop rivals that of their physical desktop. Both end users and partners see this as a huge advantage. Partners can now give objective data and comparisons to their clients to show they have successfully completed the POC so they can move on to the larger project and repeat the process for the next group of identified workers. End users equally see the value in this step because it allows them to lessen the "noise" that can bubble up with change, as concrete data verifies objectively that the migration was successful and supports positive user attitudes and acceptance toward the new IT change.
Liquidware Labs Stratusphere FIT ™ is the industry-leading assessment solution used by professional services organizations worldwide to assess current physical desktop environments in order to gain the metrics and baseline data needed to design image strategies and size and design the infrastructure in the data center. Our VDI Fit analyzer feature generates detailed reports to provide insight into an organization's application and user consumption of network, storage, CPU, memory and other compute resources. This comprehensive portrait of the environment becomes the basis for proper design and sizing of infrastructures resources and virtual desktop images needed for each unique group of users. Stratusphere FIT speeds the time to POC and initial pilot through to production by preventing design errors that cost both time and money.
Stratusphere FIT:
- Assesses and baselines users, applications and infrastructure resources
- Measures endpoint to datacenter network latency
- Rates user and application fitness levels: Good/Fair/Poor
- Supports capacity planning for CPU, Memory & IOPS per application
- Enables design of optimum shared-image strategy
- Allows creation of remediation plans before migrating desktops to virtual platforms
Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity™ is a cost effective, yet robust user virtualization solution that decouples the user profile from the OS making existing user profiles universally portable and compatible with any Windows OS (XP/2000/Vista/Win 7). The solution supports migration of Windows native user profiles and data to Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View, Terminal Services, and Windows 7 environments. Unlike other solutions on the market, ProfileUnity can be deployed as a virtual appliance and requires no expensive back-end infrastructure or SQL servers.
ProfileUnity:
- Decouples user settings and data from Windows operating systems
- Works across any Windows platform – Physical, Virtual, and Terminal Servers
- Is compatible with Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View, Windows XP/2000/Vista/7/8
- Does not require agent software to be installed on desktops, no additional shell environment needed
- Does not require expensive back-end servers or databases; runs as a virtual appliance
- Maintains data & user settings in native Windows formats so you're never locked into a proprietary data format
- Supports application virtualization/linked clones to enable use of shared-image, stateless deployments
- Supports user-installed applications
- Provides a single migration solution for all of your Windows desktops, physical and virtual, no matter how large you scale
Liquidware Labs Stratusphere is a unique monitoring and validation solution that monitors desktops performance as well as infrastructure layers. Stratusphere UX provides desktop administrators with a single pane-of- glass to view virtual desktops to ensure they are performing to user expectations and corporate SLAs. Desktop administrators can also pinpoint issues for quick problem resolution, as well as use data to optimize the VM image for best performance. Stratusphere UX delivers an ongoing and constant rating of enterprise desktop performance– by application, group, or user -- and tracks hundreds of metrics on all integral layers of the infrastructure to ensure quality and consistent user experience across all desktops.
Stratusphere UX:
- Is the only monitoring and validation solution for desktop user experience on the market
- Provides end to end visibility - desktop to datacenter
- Is easy to deploy - ready to use virtual appliance
- Supports cross platform - Windows, Linux, desktops, servers, physical or virtual
- Relates metrics to user and application names
- Delivers visibility of multiple subsystems correlated by user and application name
- Provides collated views of dissimilar subsystems
- Offers deep network visibility at the packet level – both TCP and UDP
- Operates as "read-only" for secure no touch access to critical datacenter systems
- Advanced support for VMware ESX Server, VMware View PCoIP and VMware ThinApp
- Is unique: seven patents granted surrounding network packet level identification and security
Liquidware Labs Acceler8 Partner Program
Liquidware Labs leads the market with a desktop transformation methodology supported by a suite of integrated solutions that can easily and affordably take your customers to the next-generation desktop environment. When you partner with Liquidware Labs, you are working with a premier provider in the virtual desktop industry, with a unique profile and market position. Liquidware Labs, as a certified partner of both VMware and Citrix, provides you with the broadest market reach, and the greatest spectrum of customers. Because our solutions support every phase of your customers’ projects, you can start your customers off right, and expertly guide them through subsequent evolutions as they scale and add users to their VDI deployment. You can provide them with the best ROI and lowest TCO across physical, virtual and terminal server environments.
Why is Liquidware Labs your best desktop virtualization vendor?
- One vendor with an integrated suite of software solutions, no finger pointing on customer sites
- Uncover more desktop virtualization customers with more options for supporting virtual desktops
- Broad market reach & demand; corporate investment in marketing and lead generation
- Unrivaled, patented, award-winning solutions already proven in the market
- Easier to differentiate yourselves and your portfolios from competition
- High Margins
- Deal Protection
- Solid commitment to the channel model – no direct sales
The annual subscription fee of $4,995 U.S.provides you with the following strategicbenefits:
Benefits:
- NFR Licenses
- Licenses for Customer Engagements: Limits per Engagement:
- Up to 500 users Stratusphere FIT™
- Up to 100 migrations ProfileUnity™
- Up to 100 users validated with Stratusphere UX™
- Generate Services Revenue
- Deal Registration
- Up to 30% Margins on Licenses
- Lead Generation
- Joint Marketing Programs
- Extensive Partner Portal
Requirements:
- Annual Membership Fee
- Sales Training
- Technical Training
- Joint Business Plan
- Execution on Plan
- Quarterly Reviews
When you enroll in the program, you can enable two registered, named engineers in your organization who will receive deep-dive technical training on product installation and use. Your organization will also receive access to our Acceler8 Partner Portal so you can obtain joint-marketing materials, and other support materials to keep you abreast of the latest trends in desktop virtualization and stay current on products.
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