Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop benefits

Your organization will get many appealing benefits at deploying Ulteo virtual desktops. Here are some of the key ones and please contact us to share more of them with us.

Desktop Total Cost of Ownership is crippling the IT budget

Virtual desktops help reduce end user desktop TCO, but businesses can go a step further with the open source Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop Solution
No upfront licence fees. Save money even in the first year of virtual desktop deployment

With the open source Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop business model, organizations achieve the instant benefit of not having to pay upfront for a large perpetual licence fee. Customers can start using our full virtual desktop solution in production and pay only for professional support plan if they need it. With Ulteo businesses save money even in the first year of virtual desktop deployment.

The Ulteo solution also allows the IT department to optimize their infrastructure and its associated cost with the right mix of open source, and commercial applications and complementary solutions. For example, enterprises can run OpenOffice on a Linux server instead of Windows, or integrate Ulteo with the corporate portal or content management solutions.

Starting in February, Ulteo will work well with the leading alternative virtual desktop solutions.

It means that enterprises can leverage the virtual desktop solution investments they may already have with current end users and that they will afford to extend easily it to many more end users with the Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop and its additional key benefits of openness and lower cost.

Deliver improved services to the business and across all the organizational end users

With Ulteo Virtual Desktop businesses can increase end user system uptime: for example if a machine is lost or undergoing maintenance, end users can switch to another machine and can be back to work in seconds.

The solution also increases end users’ productivity. With Ulteo, IT administrators can deliver new applications in a click and support users remotely with the greatest of ease.

And via the Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop, organizations can truly exploit the promise of mobility. End users can access their environment, including both their data and applications, in a secure way from any machine, anywhere, whether in the office or working on the road.

Ulteo makes desktop and application management easier for the IT department

The Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop offers a simple and effective solution to manage software delivery and maintenance. It is very complementary to distribution tools or physical software maintenance and save IT Administrators a few headaches: IT administrators have to deal with just fewer OS and system configurations on the centrally managed application servers therefore avoiding the complexity and conflicts of the many different local end users PC systems.

Ulteo has made virtual desktops accessible to any IT administrator.

The solution takes just a few minutes to install and configure, meaning the IT administrator can instantly start using it to manage their desktop environment.

Unlike many alternative commercial desktop solutions, due its open source nature, the Ulteo virtual desktop can be customised by the business or a partner to fit their precise needs.

The first release is focused on Linux desktops and applications and Windows applications are coming very soon:

The first release of the Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop, which is fully business-ready, can be used before, during or after migration projects from Windows to Linux operating systems and/or applications. The solution has already served more than 140,000 desktop sessions over the last few months and has been tested and improved through rigorous Proof of Concepts with commercial organisation. “So we are very excited to share it now with the rest of the world and to expand the community of users and developers around it" reports Thierry Koehrlen, CEO of Ulteo.

The solution can work well in both Linux AND Windows environments: "In February 2009, Windows applications will be available too, integrated into a unified interface", said Gaël Duval, CTO of Ulteo.

Open Virtual Desktop delivered by a world class open source team

The Ulteo team are seasoned Open Source professionals, with many years of Open Source experience between them. The first solution – the Ulteo Open Source virtual desktop - has been designed by Vincent Branger, a virtualization expert and now Ulteo Product Marketing Director, who brings years of experience of working with and using many commercialised virtualisaation solutions. “We are building a solution that solves the real pain of IT administrators who want to manage user desktops with alternative virtual desktop solutions" comments Vincent Branger.

Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop is Open-Source, and corporates have the choice to either use the free version with community support, or benefit from commercial licensing terms that offer extended support to organizations wishing to enter a commercial and privileged relationship with Ulteo.