Kidaro announced their latest desktop virtualization solution today calling it the Kidaro Corporate "To-Go" for a USB flash drive. The solution comes at a time as organizations are growing their remote workforce. This remote workforce is made up of corporate employees working from home, outsourced individuals, subcontractors, or employees who find themselves on the road more than in the office. While this remote Kidaro announced their latest desktop virtualization solution today calling it the Kidaro Corporate “To-Go” for a USB flash drive. The solution comes at a time as organizations are growing their remote workforce. This remote workforce is made up of corporate employees working from home, outsourced individuals, subcontractors, or employees who find themselves on the road more than in the office. While this remote operation can be a cost savings, it also burdens an IT department with management and security issues to worry about. The beauty of Kidaro’s solution is that an organization can give out a USB drive to these employees instead of giving them a corporate laptop. The end-user simply plugs in a USB drive into their own machine and they are presented with an encrypted corporate-managed desktop that they then authenticate into and gain access. “Kidaro pushes the right buttons when it comes to desktop virtualization,” says Andi Mann, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), “Its innovative Managed Workspace provides a highly secure virtual desktop environment, but with an unobtrusive and seamless end-user experience, even for the most novice user. Kidaro rounds out its offering with a centrally managed, policy-based control approach that manages corporate users wherever they are, while securing corporate data.” Some of the features provided by Kidaro’s corporate “to-go” USB drive include: Provides ultimate mobility. End-users just plug the USB flash drive in to any workstation, regardless of hardware or user setup, and gain immediate access to corporate resources. They can even remove the corporate “to-go” drive from one desktop and resume work on a different machine. Controls non-corporate endpoints. Create a corporate-compliant, centrally managed IT environment on any desktop (including all management tools and security policies). Seamless, transparent, end-user experience. Unlike other solutions, Kidaro Managed Workspace offers users an easy, familiar experience, eliminating toggling between their desktop and the workspace running from the USB drive. Users work in a familiar environment, initiating workspace applications just like they do on the desktop. Centrally manage and provision workspaces. Fully functional management console controls thousands of users. Administrators can manage a repository of virtual machine images, provisioning them according to Microsoft Active Directory users or groups, assigning security policies and expiration dates, and monitoring user activity. Streamline IT chores. Simplify support by providing a locked-down, centrally controlled and hardware-independent workspace. Safeguard data from leakage, theft or loss. Encrypt the corporate “to-go” drive to prevent data exposure. Control data removal via copy-paste, files, removable devices, or printing. “Corporate ‘to-go’ extends our best-of-breed Kidaro Managed Workspace offering, providing ultimate end-user flexibility and mobility,” says Kidaro CEO Ran Kohavi. “It’s not just a mobile desktop: it’s a corporate-controlled desktop solution that provides IT operations with full lifecycle control over their mobile workforce laptops and even non-corporate remote desktops – from the creation of a virtual corporate desktop, to rapid, optimized deployment, ongoing management, monitoring and policy enforcement.” Software Development