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Page 1: A Smarter Approach to VDI Intelligent Desktop Virtualization © 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. – Investor Presentation, Company Confidential.

A Smarter Approach to VDI

Intelligent Desktop Virtualization

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© 2011 Virtual Computer Inc. 2

Who are we?

Virtual Computer is the market leader in intelligent desktop virtualization.

Our product NxTop™ combines client-hosted VDI with centralized management that uniquely delivers desktop management, cost reduction and user experience benefits that can only be enabled through virtualization.

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What do we do?

By combining and enhancing Xen™ the market’s most broadly adopted type-1 hypervisor with a powerful central management system, Virtual Computer is able to offer full control of the end-point to IT and new capabilities to users

Put simply we..........

1. Make PCs more manageable, reliable and secure.

2. Dramatically lower the cost of PC management

3. Provide the end user freedom and flexibility

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Discussion Today

• The Challenge

• Solution Overview

• Industry Validation

• Technical Innovations

• Demonstrations

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Tension Between Users & IT

End Users IT Pros

Wants Freedom and Flexibility

• Generation Y Mentality• Productivity/

Performance• All my stuff in one place• I want to use this

device......• My PC broke..............

Wants Manageability,

Security & Reliability

• Controlled Network Access

• Locked down OS• Data

Protection/Security• Predictable

Configurations• Consistent SLAs

NxTop™ delivers balance and harmony

© 2011 Virtual Computer Inc.

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Unbundling PC Elements

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Hardware

Policy

Operating System

Applications User DataM

anagement

Agents

Component isolation means moreFlexibility, Manageability, Reliability

and Security

PCs Today are Glued Together

Operating SystemHardware

User DataApplications

Policy

Managed Platform

Virtual Computer Breaks them Apart

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10X

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Benefit: >90% Reduction in Infrastructure Cost versus Server Hosted VDI

StorageArrays

ManagementServer

Network Switches

Execution Servers

Server Hosted: VMware, Citrix

ManagementServer

VirtualComputer

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Discussion Today

• The Challenge

• Solution Overview

• Industry Validation

• Technical Innovations

• Demonstrations

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Manage thousands of computers as easy as managing one…

OS

Application

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

Migrate to latest OS is easy. I am just going to push the

OS down to everybody.

Roll out an application is simple as 1-2-3.

OS

APP

APP

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Centrally Manage 1000’s of PCs as Easily as One

Provision 1000s of Windows PCs

AES 256 Encryption

Snapback and Rollback

Updates System& Apps

Provide a Single Master Image

Fail-safePatching

Back-up andRapid Restore

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Intelligent Desktop Virtualization

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Discussion Today

• The Challenge

• Solution Overview

• Industry Validation

• Technical Innovations

• Demonstrations

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Customer Spotlight

“NxTop will dramatically change the way I deploy and manage desktops, freeing up valuable IT resources and transforming my operation from being reactive to proactive.”

– Charles Miller, Town of Lincoln (MA)

“We were seriously considering a server-based VDI solution, but when we tested NxTop we were amazed that we could run it without any major incremental investments in server or network infrastructure.”

– Nathan McBride, Executive Director of IT, AMAG Pharmaceuticals

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Discussion Today

• The Challenge

• Solution Overview

• Industry Validation

• Technical Innovations

• Demonstrations

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The Evolved PC Stack

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• NxTop & Application Virtualization: Full Isolation

Applications

Personalization

Operating System

Hardware

• What does this mean?– In the event of a corrupt OS, application or hardware failure– “When you tell the user to reboot , it will actually mean

something”

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Engine Architecture• Type-1 Hypervisor

– Based on Xen with extensive modifications to support PCs

– Fully virtualized platform– Secure communication to server infrastructure– Quick-boot Linux VM (NxTop Connect with )

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Managementand Control

Domain (Dom0)

NxTop ConnectServices Domain

(DomS)

Hypervisor (Open Source)

…Engine

11Applications

Virtual HW

Windows 7

User Data

Virtual Machine #N

Applications

Virtual HW

Win XP

User Data

Virtual Machine #1

Hardware

WAN/LAN

Center

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Shared Virtual Machines are Layered

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CenterDiscard onreboot/patch

Snapshotfor backup

LocalVHD

Persistent Local Data (not backed up)

Page.sys, temporary internet files, search indexes, .ost files

One-to-many from server

Patch

SystemVHD

COW

Shared System DiskOne to many: patch once, publish many

UserVHD

COW

Persistent User DataBacked-up on server for

instant re-provisioning

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NxTop Center Architecture

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Central Server

Hyper-VISSCI

Console

Control

Repository

LDAP

SQL

File System

API

Center

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NxTop Enterprise: Hierarchical Mgmt•Remote Caching Server

– Optimized for low-bandwidth/WAN environments

– At Remote Office• Local LAN operations for publishing/backups• One copy of OS image and patches• Backups stored locally in Remote Office

– At Central Office• Single view of NxTop Environment through

NxTop Center

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Central Server

WAN

Center

Remote Server

Center

LAN

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NxTop Engine: End-User Experience**Product can be configured to bypass this interface

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Local VMNxTop Connect(when enabled)

Control PanelNetworkStatus

MessageCenter

PowerManagement

On/Off

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NxTop Connect Workspace

• Integrated workspace with “Apple-like” dock• Applications configured by central management server

– Xen Receiver, RDP, Google Chrome– Inter-VM shared file system– Print server (future)

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ApplicationDock

Terminal ServicesSession (RDP)

GoogleChromeBrowser

Skype

NxTop ConnectServices Domain

(DomS)

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Demo

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