Wyse to Support VMware View™ 4.5 Upon Availability

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced support for VMware View™ 4.5 upon availability. VMware View 4.5 is a virtual desktop product that establishes a modern, virtualized architecture for desktop computing, enabling a personalized user experience and flexible access to data and information.

“Delivering this high level of service for VMware desktop users is imperative as they continue along the path toward IT as a service.”

By supporting VMware View 4.5 across its line of desktop, mobile, and handheld thin and zero clients, Wyse enables customers to take advantage of the product’s cloud computing architecture to deliver high levels of quality of service for desktop users.

Benefits for Wyse customers include the VMware View 4.5 offline desktop access feature, providing supported clients the ability to perform work even when disconnected from the corporate network. Integrated management enables enforcement of security and compliance policies, even while disconnected – an enhancement to the inherently tight security of Wyse thin and zero clients.

The support for VMware View 4.5 advances the close technology partnership between the two companies. As Curt Schwebke, chief technology officer at Wyse explains, "VMware View™ 4.5 complements our vision of how cloud client computing transforms the way organizations access critical data and applications. When combined with Wyse software and hardware, VMware View 4.5 will enable our VMware-based customers to make even greater savings without sacrificing end user performance and security."

"Through our partnership with Wyse Technology, joint customers implementing VMware View™ 4.5 can benefit from a high performance desktop environment complete with personalized user experience, and flexible, secure offline access," said Vittorio Viarengo, vice president, End User Computing Products, VMware. "Delivering this high level of service for VMware desktop users is imperative as they continue along the path toward IT as a service."

The VMware View 4.5 Wyse hardware and software include:

Wyse P20 zero client (Hardware PCoIP)
Wyse-enhanced SUSE Linux thin client family
Wyse Microsoft Windows Embedded thin client family
Wyse ThinOS thin client family
Wyse PocketCloud for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch & Android smartphones and tablet devices

About Wyse Technology

Wyse Technology is the global leader in cloud client computing, leveraging its industry-leading thin, zero and cloud PC client solutions combined with its advanced management, desktop virtualization and cloud software – on any computing platform; desktops, laptops and next generation mobile devices. Wyse provides the most complete combination of software, hardware and service solutions for its more than 200 million users. Cloud Client Computing is the ultimate client computing solution for our time. It replaces the outdated computing model of the unsecure, unreliable, un-green and expensive PC. It delivers the most optimized security, reliability, total cost of ownership, and user experience with the lowest energy usage. It simply connects all the dots: Thin and zero client computing, unified communications, desktop virtualization and the web for users to reach the clouds – in a private, public, hybrid or government cloud. It is software. It is hardware. It is services. It is in business. It is at home. It is on the go. It is freedom – so users can focus on what is important. Wyse partners with industry-leading IT vendors, including, Citrix®, CSC®, IBM®, Microsoft®, and VMware®. Wyse also partners with globally-recognized distribution and service partners along with its award-winning partner programs to service any customer, anywhere and anytime, in the world. Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, U.S.A., with offices worldwide.

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