VMware Supports Red Bee Media Australia with New Virtual Desktop Solution
VMware View 3 Helps Local Media Company Transform Business
Sydney, Australia, 19 February 2009 – VMware, Inc (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that Red Bee Media has deployed VMware View 3, VMware’s next generation virtual desktop solution. Red Bee Media specialises in creating and providing live and pre-recorded closed captions (subtitles) for major Australian broadcast networks, such as SBS, Nine Network, Seven Network and Network Ten. The company also supplies captioning for major advertisers and their agencies, video and DVD distributors, subscription television channels and conferences in Australia and overseas.
As part of its move into a new media centre in Sydney, Red Bee, with the assistance of specialist VMware consulting practice, Woodbridge IT, deployed VMware View 3 to transform its business processes, maintain efficient and cost-effective operations, and improve bottom line business results.
VMware View 3 enables organizations to “decouple” a desktop from specific physical devices or locations to create a personalized view of a user’s desktop, applications, and data – called “myView” – that is securely accessible from almost any device, at any time. By hosting these virtual desktop images in the datacenter using the industry-leading virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware View 3 enables IT personnel to provision and manage thousands of virtual desktops simply, securely, and at very low operating costs.
Chris Howe, Red Bee Media’s Managing Director, said, “Employees at our offices across Australia will use VMware View 3 to access production applications as well as Internet-facing applications, such as email and web browsing. The solution will help us realise all the productivity benefits of the PC along with the business benefits of virtualization, including cost savings, operational efficiencies and improved security. By moving data from desktop devices into the datacenter, VMware View 3 has enabled us to transform our desktop and gain greater control of our IT infrastructure, and provision new users almost instantly.”
Red Bee Media Head of Technology, Michael Tomkins, said, “Reduced storage costs were also a factor in the decision to deploy VMware View 3. VMware’s solution uses linked clone technology to rapidly create desktops from a master image, saving up to 90 per cent of the disk space that would have been required with older virtualization technology.”
An additional benefit of VMware View 3 is that it allows the user to access a virtual desktop offline on any device, allowing increased productivity and flexible working opportunities for some employees. “Offline desktops, which are still being trialled, are an attractive feature that will allow selected employees to take their virtual desktops ‘off the grid’ without the need for an Internet connection,” said Tomkins.
Paul Harapin, VMware Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, said VMware View 3 is a sign that virtualization has expanded into even more aspects of the IT infrastructure. “Our goal at VMware is to help all businesses experience the bottom line benefits of virtualization across the entire IT infrastructure. With VMware View 3, VMware is redefining what is possible with desktop virtualization by introducing technologies that help increase the scalability and richness of virtual desktops while helping to reduce management time and costs. Businesses want greater control and greater end-user flexibility from their IT systems, and this is what VMware View 3 – VMware’s universal client solution – delivers.”
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About Red Bee Media Australia
Red Bee Media Australia Pty Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Red Bee Media (UK) Limited.
At our offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, we specialise in creating and providing live and pre-recorded closed captions (subtitles) for major Australian broadcast networks such as SBS, Nine Network, Seven Network and Network Ten. We also supply captioning for major advertisers and their agencies, video and DVD distributors, subscription television channels and conferences in Australia and overseas, as well as language translation services in all media and live remote transcriptions of university lectures and business meetings.
Red Bee Media Australia is has moved to a state of the art Media Centre which is a multi-client facility offering not only captioning, but also digital media management to diverse platforms.
For information about our services, please contact:
Tel: +61 (0)2 9212 5277
Or visit:
www.redbeemedia.com.au
Contact:
Emma Rogers
VMware Senior Manager, Public Relations
erogers@vmware.com
(02) 9293 5650 office
