Press Release: 04/20/2011
Green Data Centre Inc Taps Virtual Bridges to Deliver Environmentally-Responsible Virtual Desktop Management
Partnership Brings Premier Virtual Desktop Management solution to the Canadian market
AUSTIN, Texas (April 20, 2011) – Virtual Bridges, Inc. and Green Data Centre Inc (GDC) today announced a partnership to bring Virtual Bridges VERDE™ virtual desktop management and provisioning capabilities to GDC customers across Canada. Featuring online, offline and branch VDI, VERDE is proven to reduce the costs and complexity of managing desktops, while minimizing security concerns and business risk.
As the industry’s only purpose-built VDI solution, VERDE allows users to access both Windows and Linux desktops from any location or device — including tablets, netbooks, laptops and thin clients. Additionally, the solution can be deployed on a customer’s own infrastructure, hosted by GDC or delivered as a service by GDC. Organizations can manage desktops centrally, reducing the costs and challenges associated with provisioning, updating and securing PC environments.
“Enterprises of all sizes are increasingly looking for ways to leverage desktop virtualization to reduce costs but there’s also a tremendous opportunity to use this technology to minimize carbon footprints and reduce power consumption,” said Emerich R Winkler Jr, CEO at Green Data Centre Inc. “VERDE is a perfect fit for our roster of innovative, environmentally-friendly solutions.”
VERDE is the industry’s first VDI Gen2 solution designed for organizations that want to escape the constraints of physical computing, simplify desktop management, improve security and increase business agility.
Among its many advantages, VDI Gen2 is helping organizations streamline their Windows 7 migrations. Instead of having to re-image all desktops and laptops, VERDE allows GDC customers to create, test and deploy a virtual desktop with Windows 7 in minutes. Additionally, VERDE reduces power consumption while offering customers unified monitoring and management of desktops across onsite and offsite environments; high-definition multimedia support; automatic bi-directional sync for true mobility; and advanced cloud branch capabilities including disaster recovery and business continuity.
“VERDE delivers real value to customers, both in terms of cost and energy savings — a strength that truly set us apart from the competition,” said Jim Curtin, president and CEO at Virtual Bridges. “We’re thrilled to partner with Green Data Centre Inc and bring this technology to a new market of environmentally-conscious organizations. The response we’ve seen for VERDE has been incredible, validating the value proposition around VDI Gen2.”
Green Data Centre Inc specializes in innovative green solutions for businesses looking to reduce their power costs and maintain IT equipment and data in an environmentally responsible way. The company offers Canadian cloud computing, dynamic data center services, high performance computing, high density blade computing, hosted desktops and hosted telecom solutions for organizations throughout the world.
About Virtual Bridges
Virtual Bridges VERDE is the industry’s most comprehensive desktop management and provisioning solution that leverages virtualization to deliver desktops either on-premise or in the cloud. The VERDE solution lets enterprises transform their desktop TCO by simplifying desktop management, improving security and compliance by centralizing the administration of desktop images and data, and increasing the organizational agility by quickly providing desktop and application access to users on any client machine (PC, Macintosh, Linux, thin client, home computer or on a portable drive) at any time. Venture-backed, Virtual Bridges is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
http://vbridges.com.
About Green Data Centre Inc
Green Data Centre Inc (GDC) is headquartered in Nova Scotia, Canada where it operates in one of North America’s most connected buildings with 9 fiber-optic networks and more than 7,000 strands of fiber. The building includes secure fiber-optic Meet-Me Rooms (MMRs) providing connectivity to more than 150 telecommunication companies. It is one of North America’s most connected buildings with 9 fiber-optic networks and more than 7,000 strands of fiber. Hosting in Canada provides the benefit of stricter privacy laws. Canadian Privacy Laws are renowned as being on par with the European Union. For more information visit http://www.greendatacentre.ca.
