Pivot3 Supports VMware View 5.1

Pivot3 Inc., provider of unified storage and compute appliances, announced support of VMware View 5.1 for its vSTAC VDI family of appliances.

As part of this launch of the VMware End-User Computing (EUC) portfolio, Pivot3’s VDI products are designed to provide SMBs users with the ability to deploy, pilot, and scale VMware View 5.1 virtual desktops across their organizations. Aligned with VMware View’s commitment to delivering elastic desktop services for end-users and administrative control and flexibility, vSTAC pay-as-you-grow VDI products have been optimized to support the new VMware View 5.1 architecture.
 
"Organizations are looking beyond their current PC-centric computing environments to deliver a mobile, agile and connected desktop infrastructure that offers a rich user-experience and simplified delivery and management. VMware is building on its EUC products and solutions portfolio to support end-user demands for true IT freedom and control," said Vittorio Viarengo, VP, End-User Computing, VMware. "The Pivot3 vSTAC VDI appliance family supports the Post-PC era by delivering all of the rich features of the VMware EUC platform in a simple, scalable and affordable solution."
 
vSTAC VDI appliances unify storage and servers streamlining and simplifying the configuration and integration of separate SAN storage, servers and software into a VDI solution. Each vSTAC VDI appliance delivers a performance, low-cost VDI experience with a pay-as-your-grow design, with one appliance capable of supporting 100 to 1,000 virtual desktops.
 
Pivot3 has created a 1-2-3 approach
for customers to acquire its VDI solution:

• First, prospective customers can test drive VDI solutions in a live test environment.
• Next, they can order a vSTAC P Cubed appliance and deploy 100 pilot desktops in under one hour.
• Finally, customers can scale beyond 100 desktops by adding additional vSTAC VDI plug-and-play appliances as needed, creating an enterprise shared resource VDI.

"Our customers are impressed with the new features, usability and performance gains coming out of the VMware View development team," said Lee Caswell, founder and chief strategy officer at Pivot3. "VMware View 5.1 addresses the top priority items requested by the SMB market and the release will accelerate our successes. The combination of Pivot3 VDI scale-out appliances and VMware View 5.1 expands the reach of enterprise-class VDI performance and features by making it simple and affordable for the SMB audience that many would argue need the benefits of desktop virtualization the most."
 
Building Zones Limited, a UK-based wireless consultancy and managed services company, has incorporated the vSTAC VDI into its portfolio of technology solutions to enable its clients to quickly and easily deploy VDI. "From a Building Zones perspective, we feel that the Pivot3 VDI solution provides the opportunity for a channel partner like us to deliver desktop modernization to our customers in a simple and affordable manner." said Jason Green, MD at Building Zones. "With Pivot’s support of VMware View 5.1, we will now be able to offer the highest performance, most robust and flexible VDI solution to our mid-market customers."
 
Product Availability and Pricing
The Pivot3 vSTAC VDI is available and has already garnered the interest of several enterprises across industries, including healthcare, education, government and financial services. Customer pricing starts at $350 per desktop.