Suite of Packaged and Custom Services for Virtual Desktop Implementations to help customers implement and maximize the value of the VMware platform.

VMware, Inc., a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced a new suite of professional services that help IT departments implement, manage, and optimize virtual desktops. It states that using proven best practices based on VMware Infrastructure methodology, customers and partners gain valuable insight on how to increase employee productivity, reduce IT costs, and improve security in their desktop computing environments.

The company declared that by extending the VMware platform to the desktop with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, IT administrators can deploy virtual machines on every PC and deliver a complete desktop experience that is easy to manage, fast to deploy, less costly to maintain, always-current and radically more secure. It adds that Virtual machines deployed on desktops are protected from disaster, disruption, attack, or theft and are therefore better and safer environments in which to run applications and store user files and data. In addition, VMware virtual desktops are enabled to be always-current because thousands of virtual machines can be updated instantly from the datacenter without touching a single desktop. Workforces running VMware virtual desktops get a full PC experience, both online and offline, allowing them to work from anywhere and be more productive, claims the company.

"With an optimized virtual infrastructure, companies can keep their employees productive no matter where they are located, under almost any circumstance, all while reducing costs," said Jason Martin, vice president, Professional Services, VMware. "VMware has many years of experience implementing successful virtual desktop deployments using proven methodologies. A VMware Professional Services engagement can make the difference between a small-scale adoption and a fully optimized system that maximizes cost savings and achieves user satisfaction."