IBM debuts virtual desktop solution in India

NEW DELHI, INDIA: With an eye on small and medium business IBM rolled-out its virtual desktop solution in India.

"IBM VDIs will address customers' concerns regarding security, manageability and accessibility of data," said Jyothi Sathyanathan, vice-president of IBM.com, IBM India South-Asia.

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IBM Virtual Desktop for Smart Business, built on VERDE software from Virtual Bridges, supports both Windows and Linux Virtual desktops, has inbuilt deduplication functionality at the hypervisor level and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices, including iPads, tablets, thin clients, netbooks etc.

"This is a new concept, so there is no mass market yet for the solution. The new offering will be purely a partner driven service. The company has identified over 40 channel partners across eight cities for the first stage of roll out," said Anoop Nambiar, country manager, Business Partner Organization, IBM India/SA.

IBM adds that the offering is competitively priced and reduces complexity of deployment as well. The company claims that the solution can be deployed in a couple of hours unlike VMware-Citrix VDIs, where it takes four-to-five days for the same.