KVM Sponsor Qumranet Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm

Vendors selected for the "Cool Vendor Report" are innovative, impactful and intriguing

Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) April 22, 2008 -- Qumranet, the commercial sponsor of KVM, has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the Cool Vendors in Client Computing, 2008 (Mark Margevicius, et al., April 15, 2008) report by Gartner, Inc.

"The cool vendors in client computing are introducing innovations such as managed virtual desktop services that enable companies to get out of the business of purchasing and managing PCs, as well as a notebook that accompanies cellular phones and enables mobile workers to travel light. Enterprises looking to save time, space and money will be interested in these technologies."

"It is a priviledge to be included, which we think is recognition by the esteemed analysts at Gartner for our work in desktop virtualization," said Benny Schnaider, Qumranet's CEO and co-founder. "We are in a unique position to leapfrog our competition with a product that is integrated, easy-to-use and that reduces the risks of desktop PC deployment and management."

Solid ICE is the only fully-integrated desktop virtualization solution in the market today built specifically for virtualizing desktop environments, and therefore, provides all the benefits of centralized computing with the interactivity and rich user experience of desktop computing. With Solid ICE, the user's desktop runs in a KVM virtual machine on a server in the data center, and the user connects to it using a thin client (or a repurposed PC) via SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments), Qumranet's connection protocol. SPICE is optimized for virtual desktop environments and provides users with a superior interactive experience.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Qumranet
Qumranet, inventor of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), is a fast-growing virtualization technology company. Its hosted desktop virtualization product, Solid ICE, is used by Global 2000 enterprises around the world to significantly improve the manageability, security and policy enforcement for their desktop environments. Solid ICE allows an enterprise to realize the benefits of centralized desktops, and at the same time, allows a user experience that is indistinguishable from that of a physical PC.

Qumranet is also the maintainer of the open source virtualization project KVM and along with an industry consortium, comprising companies like IBM, Intel, AMD, Red-Hat, Novell and many others, is committed to advancing KVM to be the industry's standard virtualization platform.

Qumranet, Solid ICE, Independent Computing, ICE, and SPICE are trademarks of Qumranet. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:
Lauree Ostrofsky
Baker Communications Group
212-877-2418
lauree@bakercg.com

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