I do not have any hardware engineers in my company.”Īlong with being added to the iPad App Store, PocketCloud also has more than 20 new and improved features, including support for VMware’s View 4 virtual desktop product, Wyse’s new Touch Pointer-a pointer on the screen that lets you navigate, point, click and double-click on items on the screen, no matter how small-and more audio features. The bottom line is that the differentiator is software. “For the last five or six years, we’ve been focusing on software. “Our story was a hardware story for many, many years,” Maner said. The company still makes thin-client hardware, but it’s the software IP that is the key differentiator for the company in what is rapidly becoming a highly competitive desktop virtualization space that not only includes such heavyweights as Microsoft, Citrix and VMware, but also a host of smaller vendors and startups. It’s also part of Wyse’s larger push to position itself as a software company in the client virtualization and cloud computing space, breaking away from its legacy as a thin-client device maker. Wyse’s PocketCloud App for iPad is among a growing number of business applications that are being put into the iPad App Store. “We’re taking it to the enterprise market.” “The iPad is being positioned for the consumer market,” Wyse CEO Tarkan Maner said in an interview April 2 in Boston. ![]() Now Wyse is bringing it to the Apple iPad, the much-anticipated tablet that goes on sale April 3. ![]() ![]() It also lets IT administrators gain access to end-user machines through their Apple devices. Wyse introduced PocketCloud in August 2009 as a way to enable users of Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch to access their work environments on their PCs and virtual desktops from their iPhone or iPod Touch. Desktop virtualization vendor Wyse Technology is making its PocketCloud software available to users of Apple’s iPad.
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