Ottawa, CANADA: DiscCloud has announced the release of the DiscCloud Virtual Appliance, a desktop virtualization platform designed for Mac OS X clients.   

The release of Desktop Virtualization for the Mac sets a high bar for desktop computing, both for consumer and enterprise clients. With DiscCloud, Mac desktops can be centrally administered, supported, and maintained using trusted and well known practices used by VMware professionals.

DiscCloud transforms any PC, workstation, or x86 based machine into a powerful virtual desktop server for Mac OS X Leopard clients. The DiscCloud Virtual Appliance runs as a Virtual Machine on VMware Server and ESX class products, and hence on vast assortment of standard x86 platforms.

DiscCloud extends existing capabilities of the Mac desktop, via advanced VMware features such as automated backup, continuous availability, storage scalability, mobility, and desktop disaster recovery.

DiscCloud's unique approach to desktop virtualization is 100 percent Apple license compliant, and supports Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) clients.