NxTop Intelligent Desktop Virtualization

NxTop is an intelligent desktop virtualization suite, which combines Client-Hosted VDI with centralized management, making managing thousands of desktops as easy as managing one. The first product in the industry to combine centralized management with a Type-1 client hypervisor, NxTop offers IT professionals with full control over the endpoint device, gives users new levels of flexibility, and slashes costs at the same time.

Here's a quick overview of what NxTop offers, but don't just take our word for it.  Get a Free Download of NxTop to try it for yourself, and you'll see how you can get a desktop virtualization project going in a snap, with no additional infrastructure investment.

Central Management, Distributed Execution

IT executives are beginning to see tremendous potential for lowering operational costs and reducing security risk through desktop virtualization. Yet adoption has been slow as IT teams struggle to justify the economics of large data center investments and accurately predict how many of their users can be addressed by server-based virtual desktops versus traditional PCs. Central desktop management has its advantages, but can it return on its investment?

By distributing the deployment model (while retaining central management) to take advantage of remote servers and deploying the hypervisor locally on the desktop, NxTop customers can reduce their operational costs in half without sacrificing control, mobility or end-user computing experience, even in bandwidth-constrained environments. Further, network traffic is greatly reduced because it now only needs to communicate changes. Backups are efficient and non-intrusive because only the user data is backed up, not the entire image.

Better Experience for Both IT Manager and End User

NxTop is easy to install and maintain. A typical installation can be up and running in less than an hour. Central, policy-based user profiles and virtual machine image definitions let IT managers update once, test in isolation, and deploy automatically, which means the change process is also safe, simple and efficient.

Best of all, the management and security benefits of NxTop do not come at the expense of end-user experience. Users have the same rich computing experience they are accustomed to. Better even. NxTop offers NxTop Connect, a quick-booting (in seconds) embedded virtual appliance that provides seamless access to server- and cloud-based applications and server-hosted desktops from all major VDI vendors. Pre-loaded applications include Google Chrome, Skype, and RDP client. NxTop Connect can run standalone on the desktop as thin client or alongside locally executing virtual machines.

One Platform, Any Environment

The desktop virtualization market is confusing. IT often must invest in several products to address the needs of all its users: stationary, mobile, workstation, power user, the list goes on. With the advent of BYOPC (bring your own PC) policies and cloud computing, the chaos can only increase.

NxTop brings clarity to the market with a single, adaptive platform that scales to meet the most demanding computing needs from one user to a global enterprise. A single managed infrastructure of PCs will support any combination of local desktops, remote VDI sessions, and server- and cloud-based applications. IT departments can enable end-users to create their own personal virtual machines that run alongside corporate virtual machines with full isolation, for instance against viruses and malware.

Finally, NxTop offers the broadest PC configuration and peripheral support in the industry (click here for a full list). IT no longer has to delay adoption for users who have not yet upgraded to the “approved” platform of the virtualization system.

The NxTop product suite includes:

• NxTop Enterprise: Desktop virtualization and management solution for large organizations; includes NxTop Business with added distributed remote-office management and help-desk support.
• NxTop Express: Free desktop virtualization and management solution for five users.
• NxTop Engine: Free stand-alone Type 1 hypervisor with local virtual machine installer and a quick-booting virtual appliance for access to server- and cloud-based applications.

NxTop® is a registrated trademark of Virtual Computer.