IVO vResource WG™ Appliance Overview

IVO vResource WG Series of management appliances for Personal Utility Computing provides powerful virtualization and management capabilities to the IVO Building Block infrastructure. The vResource WG appliance virtualizes and personalizes all aspects of a user's personal computing operating environment including virtual desktop configuration, application permissions, security, personal storage virtualization and user quotas, and dynamic allocation and management of shared (vTelecomputing) and dedicated (vBlade PC) computing environments.

Key Features

• Dynamic allocation of shared (vTelecomputing) computing
• Dynamic allocation of dedicated (vBlade PC) computing
• Virtualizes personal desktop configurations and lockdowns
• Manage user application access permissions and licensing
• Control personal computing environment security
• Manage personal storage virtualization
• Maintain user storage quotas and shares

Shared and Dedicated Compute Resource Virtualization

• Dynamically allocated vBlade PC™ dedicated computing resources
• Dynamically allocated vTelecomputing shared computing resources
• Provides utilization management for computing resources
• Manages and monitors Quality of Service for computing
• Seamlessly manage planned downtime without service interruptions
• Performance metric based management

Desktop Configuration Virtualization

• Personalized desktop follows user regardless of compute resource
• Fast logon, eliminates "roaming profile" technology
• Auto-creation of Outlook user profiles
• Manage application permissions
• Control user program menu by user or group
• Define desktop lockdown strategies
• Auto map network drives

Personal Storage Virtualization

• Centralized virtual personal storage management
• Improved utilization of storage
• Ability to manage personal storage through SAN gateway
• Simplified storage provisioning
• Manage user storage quotas
• Manage virtual storage by volume and disk
• Management reports to monitor service level agreements
• Manage personal storage shadow copies
• Manage physical storage capacity to virtualized capacity

Internet User Management

• Manage user access to personal computing environment from Internet
• Control internal versus external access to compute resources
• Manage user related Internet security