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Wyse Technology, provider of thin computing and client virtualization solutions, today announced the availability of its latest provisioning software, WSM 3.0.

WSM 3.0 delivers full PC functionality on a zero client, while creating scalable, low-cost and easy to manage architectures for all organization sizes.

• Faster application streaming and pre-fetching
• High availability for distributed sites
• Full PC functionality, including Microsoft Windows 7
• OS and application content distribution management
• User setting and data preservation

WSM 3.0 uses distributed architecture scalability combined with the flexibility of being able to run your environment on Microsoft Server 2003, 2008 or XP Professional, or Wyse WSM Appliance Device. Users are also able to create and provision their virtual clients with VMware Virtual Center Integration. Most important for public sector and financial customers, WSM centralizes security and allows no local storage in order to keep the system safe.

Wyse WSM 3.0 is available immediately at $200/device seat.

Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), global provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, today announced it has completed calendar year 2009 with revenues up from 2008, despite the worldwide economic recession.

Over the past twelve months, deployment of OKL4 doubled from 250 million mobile handsets to more than 500 million mobile devices. OKL4 now ships on mobile smartphones such as the HTC G1 and G2, the HTC Hero, the Motorola Droid and the Motorola Cliq, the Palm Pre, and the Toshiba TG01OK, as well as the world’s first commercially-available, fully virtualized smartphone, the Motorola Evoke QA4.

In 2009, OK Labs also secured more than US $7.6 million in funding from venture capital firms Chrysalis Ventures and Neo Technology Ventures, as well as from Citrix Systems.

Partnership with Citrix – Mobile-to-Enterprise (M2E) Virtualization

Citrix Systems is both a strategic investor and a key partner for OK Labs, working with the company to provide solutions for delivering enterprise applications to mobile devices with mobile-to-enterprise virtualization (M2E). The companies’ combined technologies, including Citrix application delivery infrastructure and the OKL4 mobile virtualization solution, promise easily deployed and securely managed access to enterprise and desktop applications from wireless devices. M2E virtualization enables end users to leverage a single device, bridging corporate and personal worlds without risk of compromising company data, applications, or networks.

Together, Citrix and OK Labs provide a secure and robust end-to-end application delivery platform for the entire mobile/Internet ecosystem – from mobile semiconductor suppliers to intelligent device OEMs to mobile network operators (MNOs), and global carriers – to meet the needs of mobile workers at small/medium businesses and global enterprises.

Partnership with ST-Ericsson – Extending Reach to the Global Mobile Marketplace

After a rigorous selection process, ST-Ericsson, the world’s third largest mobile semiconductor supplier, selected OK Labs as its virtualization partner. The companies are working in tandem to build a combined OK Labs / ST-Ericsson platform in 2010.

OK Labs already supports and comprises a key part of mobile chip reference designs from the world’s largest mobile chipset manufacturer, Qualcomm, resulting in deployment of OKL4 in more than 500 million handsets. With the selection of OK Labs by ST-Ericsson, OKL4 will enable an even greater portion of the global mobile marketplace, complementing the large and growing fleet of CDMA devices with TD-SCDMA, HSDPA and other 3.5G and emerging 4G wireless technologies, which are delivered by the world’s leading suppliers – Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Sony-Ericsson.

New Product Offerings

In the second quarter, OK Labs introduced OK:Android and OK:Symbian, off-the-shelf paravirtualized versions of these popular and widely deployed smartphone OS platforms, supplementing OK Labs offerings for Linux and numerous RTOSes (real-time OSes). Both the Android and Symbian offerings employ OK Labs Secure HyperCell™ Technology to run these platforms as guest OSes in secure cells on top of the OKL4 Microvisor. This architecture gives handset OEMs a faster path to developing and delivering new designs and lower-cost devices, and assures new levels of mobile wireless robustness and security.

OK Labs also launched the industry’s first mobile Virtualization Integration Practice (VIP). VIP Services offers a set of consulting and training services that help customers to define requirements, validate design approaches, and support mobile phone product development.

Formal Verification of Microkernel Technology

Earlier this year, OK Labs and its research partner NICTA announced completion of groundbreaking research and development, providing formal mathematical proof of correctness of the microkernel technology underlying OKL4. Completed on behalf of OK Labs by researchers at NICTA and the University of New South Wales, the project centered on assuring extremely high levels of reliability and security in mission-critical domains. By mathematically proving the correctness of the underlying kernel, the team paved the way for validating and deploying mobile virtualization in business and mission-critical applications in mobile telephony, business intelligence, and mobile financial transactions.

This research earned OK Labs CTO Dr. Gernot Heiser and his colleagues a coveted “Best Paper” award at the twenty-second ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). As a commercialization partner for NICTA, OK Labs will be able to bring the results of the formal verification project to market in future generations of its mobile virtualization products.

Layered Technologies, a worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has developed a new virtual private data center (VPDC) platform with levels of managed services, security and flexibility via a proprietary API that were previously unavailable in an integrated offering.

The new platform is a hybrid cloud computing infrastructure that gives customers a virtualized environment on dedicated servers within Layered Tech data centers, as well as levels of flexibility on how to securely access their VPDC, whether by dedicated lines, VPN or Internet.

Because Layered Tech’s new VPDC offering is technology-agnostic, customers can choose the virtualization platform that best suits their needs, including 3Tera’s AppLogic, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. Layered Tech’s automated server provisioning system will also enable enterprise customers to design, order and deploy a secure virtualized environment within an hour, instead of the weeks or months it can take to provision a similar solution within many companies’ on-premise data centers.

And, Layered Tech’s new VPDC platform provides a customer API, which makes more than 100 applications immediately available to the customer’s developers; those developers then have access to the API for customizing additional applications of their choice.

Layered Tech’s new integrated virtualized platform gives customers the reliability of dedicated servers with the high availability, processing power and scalability of virtual machines to meet constantly changing business needs. The customer API, created by Layered Tech and based on industry standard protocols (SOAP and XML-RPC), provides easy connectivity and enables customers to perform activities such as customizing proprietary applications, monitoring and managing resources, reviewing analytics, and more via computer or mobile device.

And because Layered Tech wraps its new VPDC platform with tiered managed services that are based on its DEFCON service bundles, customers can choose from a range of support options, rather than the all-or-nothing approach from other hosting providers. Support ranges from the highest root-level access down to the lowest self-managed option with varying levels in between, which lets customers focus on managing their businesses, not their VPDC.

Teradici has released PCoIP Firmware 3.0, which enables the interoperability of PCoIP hardware zero clients with VMware View 4.

PCoIP hardware zero clients add a unique client option that provides customers the flexibility they need to deploy end-to-end solutions with a variety of end point options to meet a broad range of user and business needs. Key benefits include very low operational cost, high security, and future-proof desktop scalability for IT organizations in healthcare, education, government and other market sectors.

VMware View 4 is the industry’s only purpose-built desktop virtualization solution. It establishes a new quality, cost and scale standard while eliminating critical barriers that have traditionally restricted customer adoption. VMware’s integration of Teradici’s software implementation of the PCoIP protocol is a key feature of VMware View 4, delivering a rich, high-quality desktop experience to any user regardless of location, addressing more use cases than ever before.

Desktop clients based on the Teradici TERA1100 PCoIP processor are a true zero client solution that can support any user type from task workers to mainstream office workers, to the most demanding extreme workstation/visualization application users. Hardware zero clients are different from traditional thin clients in that they use highly integrated silicon devices that are optimized for virtual desktops using the PCoIP protocol. As such, they enable the most efficient client design with no x86 processor, no north/south-bridge, no graphics processor, and no separate network controller device. PCoIP hardware zero clients can be connected to VMware View 4 virtual desktops over standard IP networks including local area networks or long distance wide area networks.

Key benefits of hardware zero clients include:

• Future-proof desktop scalability
  • Supports any graphics or media codecs (now or future) at up to full display rates
  • Flexible host configurations including dedicated remote workstations or virtual desktops for optimum desktop performance
• Lowest client operational cost
  • Eliminate patches due to no application O/S and no drivers on the client
  • High reliability with low power and no moving parts
• Highly secure
  • Unique USB device authorization
  • No local storage
  • No need for anti-virus/spyware on client

LiveTime Software, a provider of Web based ITIL 3 Service Management and Help Desk software, today announced the release of the LiveTime Virtual Appliance 6.0.

The new virtual appliance has been specifically designed for SaaS-based Service Management providers, offering full isolation and a simple menu driven interface. Each appliance can operate in as little as 512Mb of RAM and can scale the number of virtual processors and memory to meet the needs of any customer.

As a standalone platform, the LiveTime Virtual appliance also includes an auto update facility so customers can automatically remain current with the latest LiveTime release. Simply choose the update option and LiveTime will automatically download and install the latest release direct from the console.

Designed around open standards the LiveTime Virtual Appliance includes Apache 2.2, Tomcat 6.0, Java 6 and LiveTime 6.0, optimized for LiveTime service delivery. Version 6.0 includes an updated kernel and support for VMware vSphere 4.0 and Citrix XenServer 5.5 with guest tools for each environment. In addition, LiveTime supports the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and Microsoft’s Hyper-V environment.

Organizations can now leverage LiveTime’s highly scalable ITIL Service Management software with the ease of installation of traditional software. The virtual appliance provides the necessary scalability and security that is difficult to achieve when deployed on existing hardware and operating systems. Since the system has been hardened at the operating system layer, LiveTime provides Just Enough Operating System for its needs. This makes the system easy to update and maintain and provides a very small footprint and a 200Mb download.