InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy recently put two third-party desktop virtualization management applications into the InfoWorld Test Center for a quick look at how the virtualized desktop is finally coming of age. The two products, Kidaro Managed Workspace 1.0 and Sentillion's vThere, "provide centralized authentication and validation of VMs, including the ability to isolate and revoke rogue images. They bolster secu InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy recently put two third-party desktop virtualization management applications into the InfoWorld Test Center for a quick look at how the virtualized desktop is finally coming of age.The two products, Kidaro Managed Workspace 1.0 and Sentillion’s vThere, “provide centralized authentication and validation of VMs, including the ability to isolate and revoke rogue images. They bolster security through encryption of the local VM disk image or file structure, and through encryption of the VM network connection, which is typically handled within the VM by a VPN client. They also offer the ability to restrict the VM’s access to local resources such as USB, disk, and clipboard. And they integrate with Active Directory to simplify authentication and identity management. Randall continues, “Beyond these essentials, Kidaro and Sentillion both provide a variety of additional unique and highly innovative features that differentiate their products from the more basic VMware offering, and also from each other. The solution you choose will come down to your evaluation priorities, with Kidaro’s host integration prowess squaring off against Sentillion’s deployment convenience to woo prospective customers.” Both products seemed to score about the same, with a very good rating of 8.4. To find out how these two products stacked up in the test lab, read Randall’s entire review, here. Software Development