Windows 7 Migration for Enterprise Desktops Made Easy with Liquidware Labs
ProfileUnity
Innovative solution harvests user profiles from Windows XP and populates
Windows 7 from day one
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL), the leader
in User Experience Management for next generation desktops, today announced
immediate availability of enterprise scale Microsoft Windows 7® migration
support in Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity.
With Microsoft's launch of Windows 7 this week many organizations are
grappling with the challenge of getting existing enterprise desktop data from
Windows XP to Windows 7. With so many unfocused, confusing, or inconsistent
options for migration in the market today, ProfileUnity provides an intuitive
solution with consistent and reliable results to the user and data migration
problem facing the industry. ProfileUnity seamlessly harvests native Windows
user personalization data, email, and documents from Windows 2000 and XP and
places it in Windows 7, all with zero end-user touch.
ProfileUnity Windows 7 Migration benefits include:
-- Windows native format - User profiles and data remain in Window's
native
format. No additional Windows shell environment is needed.
-- Granular control - Administrators can control which portion of the
user's profile is migrated.
-- Optional management after migration - ProfileUnity can be removed from
the environment or left as a powerful management tool to manage and
make
profiles portable to other Windows desktops.
-- Compatibility - ProfileUnity supports heterogeneous Windows
environments
with profile portability after migration. Users can log onto any
Windows
desktop OS post migration; XP, 2000, Windows 7, VMware View, Citrix
XenDesktop, etc., and their profile is instantly made available.
-- Application-level settings migration - ProfileUnity ports popular
application-level settings data to the new environment while keeping
it
backward compatible. Seamlessly upgrade users from Office 2003/XP to
Office 2007 and retain custom application-level settings including
MAPI
profiles and Outlook signatures.
-- Low impact - ProfileUnity requires no agent in the OS -- before or
after
migration. Users simply login to their new machine and user settings
are quickly obtained.
LWL delivers additional User Experience Management solutions that are also
integral to organizations migrating to Windows 7. Liquidware Labs Stratusphere
boasts comprehensive assessment fitness rating features that provide data to
right-size an organization's desktop infrastructure for its next generation
desktop such as Windows 7, VMware View, or Citrix XenDesktop. Stratusphere's
UX (User Experience) features deliver powerful metrics and help desk alerts
that ensure users are receiving the best possible desktop at any point in time
-- before, during, or after a migration.
"Organizations have waited for the stability that Windows 7 offers Microsoft
desktops," said Jason E. Smith, vice president product marketing, LWL. "What
our sales channel and customer base are finding is that Microsoft is leaving
the decision as to which data migration strategy to use up to the
administrator, and there are so many products that address only part of the
challenge of migrating users to Windows 7. ProfileUnity is a zero end-user
touch migration solution that harvests data from the current environment,
stores it to a network share, and pulls it in instantly upon logon to a new
machine. This innovative approach to profile migration, management, and
portability is resonating with customers."
"The task of migrating application and user data from existing Windows XP and
Vista desktops along with deploying newer versions of legacy applications on
the new Windows 7 operating system platform is a major challenge facing all
organizations worldwide", said Joe Jessen Desktop Virtualization analyst for
The Virtualization Practice. "This new release of Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity
allows enterprises to seamlessly migrate profile based operating system and
application settings from the user's existing Windows desktop to their new
Windows 7 environment - irrespective of whether Windows 7 and its applications
are physically or virtually deployed. This will significantly accelerate the
Windows 7 migration process for many organizations."
Download a 30-day evaluation version of ProfileUnity or contact
info@liquidwarelabs.com for more information.
ABOUT LIQUIDWARE LABS INC.
Liquidware Labs(TM) (LWL) is the leader in User Experience Management for next
generation desktops including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft
Windows 7. The company's Stratusphere(TM) and ProfileUnity(TM) solutions have
been described by analysts as the industry's first "On-Ramp to VDI" by
providing complete methodology and software that enable organizations to
cost-effectively plan, migrate, and manage their next generation desktop
infrastructure with best practices in mind. LWL's comprehensive solutions
provide Assessment, Personalization Management, User Configuration, and
Service Level Assurance. LWL products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are
available through a global network of certified partners. Visit
www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.
Contacts:
Jason E. Smith
media@liquidwarelabs.com
678-648-7042
SOURCE Liquidware Labs Inc.
Jason E. Smith, +1-678-648-7042, media@liquidwarelabs.com
