Last week NComputing announced the appointment of Simon Pearce, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Jay Mellman, Vice President of Global Marketing. Pearce and Mellman will be responsible for extending NComputing’s global reach in virtual desktop solutions for education and SMB markets and for accelerating the company’s next growth cycle by driving mainstream adoption of disruptive products based on its next-generation Numo™ SoC (System on Chip) and new vSpace software, both coming later this year. In addition, their rich expertise with enterprise customers and channels strengthens the execution of NComputing’s strategic expansion into the enterprise market with alliance partners such as Citrix Systems.

Prior to joining NComputing, Pearce served as the VP and GM for Quest’s global desktop virtualization business. At Quest, Pearce established and lead the European business, scaling it from a few million to more than $200 million. In addition as a veteran of the information technology industry, Mellman has held senior global marketing positions with large companies including Cisco and HP, as well as a number of start-up organizations including his recent position as the CMO of Rhomobile.

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Last week NComputing attended BETT 2012 in Olympia, London. Attracting more than 600 educational suppliers and 30,000 visitors, BETT is the world’s leading event for educational technology, enabling attendees to enhance their knowledge of learning through innovative technology. Desktop virtualization was announced as one of the top industry trends to look out for. What’s even better is that NComputing was listed as one of the top 4 companies to be featured at BETT. At the event NComputing showcased ‘Classroom In a Box’- the first ever solution to enable schools, colleges, and universities to run up to 100 desktops from a single operating system. A classroom environment was emulated at our booth allowing visitors to experience firsthand NComputing’s desktop virtualization and its benefits to the classrooms. Visitors were also given the opportunity to enter a competition to win a 12 user NComputing Classroom in a Box solution featuring Microsoft’s Windows MultiPoint Server 2011. Paul Gullett, Vice President for EMEA did a captivating video at the event outlining the end-to-end NComputing desktop virtualization solution. Watch now!

Earlier today, NComputing announced a strategic collaboration with Citrix Systems that will advance virtual client technology innovation as a result of a new Citrix HDX Ready System-on-Chip (SoC) reference design. Developed with Citrix Systems, the new HDX Ready SoC reference design, powered by NComputing SoC technology, will have an immediate impact on the desktop virtualization market through the creation of a new eco-system of high performance, low energy virtual clients and form factors- at radically lower price points. Product features, pricing, and availability will be announced in Q1 2012. Check out the links below to learn more about this exciting partnership!

NComputing/Citrix overview page
Read the press release
Read the FAQs
Watch the video with Raj Dhingra, NComputing CEO

Last week, NComputing introduced vSpace Server 6.5. NComputing’s patented and award winning vSpace Server is once again changing the economics of desktop virtualization. NComputing has always delivered the highest density per dollar, now vSpace Server 6.5 increases density to 100 user sessions per OS, offering the most cost-effective virtual desktop solution. To learn more about the announcement check out the collateral below.

vSpace Server 6.5 press release

Product Release Notes