Video Library
Gartner - Qumranet video

This video features an interview with Gartner’s Brian Gammage, and Qumranet’s Navin R. Thadani. Brian discusses the challenges with desktop virtualization today, and Navin covers an overview of Solid ICE, and how Solid ICE overcomes these challenges.

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Solid ICE Product Demo

Demonstrates how Solid ICE works and its effectiveness - from both, the end user side, and the IT administrator side.

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Company Overview - Qumranet Background

Introduces Qumranet, a leading virtualization technology company. Explains the company’s 2 key areas of focus; first, its commercial product Solid ICE and second, the open source KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) effort. Discusses the benefits that Solid ICE provides to enterprises.

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Industry Pain Points Video

Illustrates the pain points and problem areas around desktop management, security and policy enforcement. Describes the economic drain of desktop management which includes provisioning, support and maintenance, failures, security and compliance and power. Discusses how defined management and end user experience frontier is changing through various approaches to solve desktop delivery challenges.

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Solid ICE Product Overview Video (short)

Provides an overview of Solid ICE. Describes the 3 key components of Solid ICE; Virtual Desktop Server (VDS), Virtual Desktop Controller (VDC) and SPICE (Qumranet’s remote rendering technology). Outlines specific benefits for each of the 3 components.

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Solid ICE Product Overview Video (long)
Provides a conceptual overview of Solid ICE. Details the 3 key components of Solid ICE (VDS, VDC and SPICE) and the specific benefits for each component:
1.VDS benefits covered include leverages KVM, optimized for desktop performance, high availability, high density of virtual machines/desktops and scalable architecture.
2.VDC benefits include built from the ground-up for desktops, manage every aspect of the virtual desktop infrastructure from once central location, search driven User Interface and power-shell based scripting API.
3.SPICE benefits include user experience indistinguishable from physical PC, SPICE is an adaptive remote rendering solution and improves desktop density on the server.
Outlines how Solid ICE works and summarizes the value proposition for all stakeholders involved in the overall enterprise.
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Solid ICE Use Cases Video
Solid ICE is being used in several Global 2000 enterprise production environments, across a variety of industries. Discusses how Solid ICE benefits the following use cases: IT training/class rooms, consultants & contractors, developer desktops, outsourcing, primary desktop, telecommuting and disaster recovery.
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Solid ICE Relative Economics (vs. Physical Desktops) Video
Discusses the economics of virtual desktops, relative to physical desktops. Sites Gartner analysis of Qumranet showing the significant cost savings achieved by Solid ICE.
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Solid ICE Differentiators vs. Other Retrofitted Server Virtualization Solutions Video

Explains and clarifies the difference between desktop and server virtualization. Compares Qumranet’s Solid ICE to server virtualization products in terms of user experience, performance and manageability.

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Customer Success Stories Video
Shares specific enterprise success stories. escribes the pain-point, Solid ICE benefits, decision behind choosing Qumranet and the future direction for each example.
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