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Virtual Computer’s NxTop Named Best of VMworld 2009 Finalist for Desktop Virtualization

 

Independent Evaluation by Virtualization Experts TechTarget, Recognize Virtual Computer from a field of 175 Award Entrants

Westford, MA. — September 4, 2009 — PDF PDFVirtual Computer Inc., the company redefining PC life cycle management through virtualization, today announced it was named a finalist in the Best of VMworld 2009 Awards for its NxTop solution, in the competitive desktop virtualization category. The editors of TechTarget Inc.’s (NASDAQ: TTGT) SearchServerVirtualization.com selected the winners and finalists from more than 175 product entrants at the VMworld 2009 conference held this week. The independent team of judges consisting of experts and editors reviewed and evaluated the products according to innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

 

“Virtual Computer has emerged as the leading innovator in the desktop virtualization market.” said Dan McCall, president and CEO of Virtual Computer. “We are proud of this public recognition of our product and look forward to continuing to deliver on our promise to make personal computers more manageable, reliable and secure while enhancing the user’s computing experience.”

 

NxTop tackles core PC management functions currently addressed with legacy agent-based tools, and delivers additional benefits only possible using bare-metal virtualization technology at the end-point. NxTop delivers provisioning, publishing and patching of the base operating system on a one-to-many basis; as well as user data and profile backup and recovery, and advanced security benefits.

 

The best of VMworld 2009 Awards span eight categories: Business continuity and data protection; security and virtualization; virtualization management; hardware for virtualization; desktop virtualization; cloud computing technologies; new technology; and best of show. Up to three recipients were selected in each category.