Pano Logic expands its zero-client virtual desktop solution

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The company, which offers an alternative approach to thin client or traditional-based desktop deployments, originally only supported VMware virtualization research. Nevertheless last October the company added support for Microsoft Hyper-V, and but with Pano System 4.0 Pano Logic has reached the virtual trifecta, adding support for Citrix and extending its desktop virtualization solution across all three major virtualization platforms.

"The consumerization of IT is becoming a powerful catalyst for desktop virtualization, and as network research matures and security vendors catch up, cloud computing can taking everything into account deliver upon its promise to the desktop," said John Kish, CEO of Pano Logic. "This new paradigm requires a desktop architecture that works independently of the underlying hypervisor infrastructure and is interoperable with any management system. In other words what we are giving clients today with Pano System 4."

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