Avistar Communications debuted the industry's first fully comprehensive virtual desktop videoconferencing experience designed for IBM Sametime. With the growing demand for unified communications (UC) solutions, and with businesses aggressively adopting virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), technology executives are faced with the challenge of deploying UC solutions within a VDI environment.

NexGen Storage has launched the industry's first solid state storage system with Quality of Service designed for business critical virtualization. The NexGen n5 Storage System seamlessly integrates an arsenal of cutting-edge technologies, including PCIe solid state and patent-pending performance Quality of Service, Dynamic Data Placement and Phased Data Reduction, to deliver new levels of shared storage control and efficiency.

AppSense has announced the free version of AppSense Strata, a suite of product technology that enables true user freedom by providing them the ability to install and manage their own applications in an isolated environment without needing admin rights. After installation the applications are then seamlessly re-delivered back to their desktop.

Trusted Computing Group (TCG) announced the release of the first Virtualized Platform Architecture, which describes how to build a trusted virtualized platform. With this specification, robust Trusted Computing technologies based on the TCG's core concepts of the hardware root of trust can be added to existing virtual machine managers (VMMs), allowing virtual machines (VM) on the same platform to share hardware roots of trust.

Lenovo announced that customers are now able to buy Virtual Computer NxTop directly through Lenovo sales and its network of business partners in North America. NxTop 4.0 offers extreme flexibility, allowing IT to centrally manage images and use the same image templates for multiple deployment models, regardless of whether the data is hosted on a storage array network or locally on a fully encrypted hard drive.

Pano Logic, (panologic.com) the leader in zero client desktop virtualization, has announced its formal expansion into the Indian market, distributing through Pano Logic Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. Pano Logic India will appoint resellers in all the states of India and will provide sales and technical training for its partners. Opening the Indian market places Pano Logic into 20 countries globally.

Ixia will unveil IxLoad-VM, a unique solution for testing virtualized data centers and their infrastructures, at VMWorld 2011. IxLoad-VM measures the quality and capacity of cloud data center components, applications, and networks to deliver effective cloud-based services.Vsitors to the show will be able to see IxLoad-VM demonstrations.

Citrix Systems today announced a new version of its Citrix XenDesktop product line, which offers increase device support and business personalization. The new XenDesktop 5.5 adds the "Personal vDisk" technology acquired earlier this month from RingCube to all editions of XenDesktop, making it far easier for customers to deploy highly personalized virtual desktops at a substantially lower cost.

Citrix Systems has announced it has closed the acquisition of RingCube, a leader in user personalization technology for virtual desktops. The innovative technology from RingCube accelerates virtual desktop adoption by eliminating the tradeoff between user personalization and centralized IT management. When combined with a desktop virtualization product like Citrix XenDesktop, RingCube makes it easier for IT to give each user a personalized virtual desktop, dramatically reduces the cost of storage, and simplifies the move from physical to virtual desktops.

NComputing has announced technology integration between NComputing vSpace virtualization software and desktop devices with Microsoft Windows Multipoint Server (WMS) 2011 multiuser operating system. This integration extends the benefits of WMS 2011 low cost, high performance networking and rich managementfeatures from the server through to the desktop endpoint to provide a complete, simple and seamless end-to-end desktop virtualization deployment.