Wanova Inc., provider of turnkey cloud desktop software, has announced the Mirage 3.0 software release which has been enhanced to deliver increased centralized desktop management functionality for businesses in addition to offering disaster recovery for service providers. Leveraging the image layering capability of Mirage 3.0, IT teams will now be able to centralize images and offer single image management of one copy of Windows and core applications across the organization without negatively impacting end users experience. Additionally, organizations will benefit from automated and accelerated IT operations which typically are time consuming.

Mirage 3.0 also supports Windows 7 migrations which can now be carried out in-place and be completed within 50 hours as opposed to 2000 hours when manually done for 5000 PCs. The PC hardware migration offers users with a new PC, while centralized image repair makes it easy for IT to carry out repairs on PCs without the need for troubleshooting or touching the system. Furthermore, Wanova's Mirage 3.0 offers users with the only complete PC back-up and recovery solution for Windows OEM PC including for personal data and applications, and for user personalization settings.

Because an increasing number of mobile devices capable of replicating PC based tasks are flooding the market, Wanova’s Mirage 3.0 solution has been designed with a file portal which provides users with data access from multiple devices such as Macs, tablets, and smartphones. If however, a user requires full PC access from any of the devices, the desktop image from a users PC can easily be loaded on to a virtual machine enabling mobile device access. If the user makes any changes over the virtual machine, it is synchronized automatically with the PC of the user. The advanced capabilities offered by Mirage 3.0 support operational continuity in the event of disaster recovery situation.

In a release, Barry Phillips, chief marketing officer at Wanova, said, “Organizations of all sizes are starting to realize that desktop virtualization is just another way of doing desktop management, providing IT with the ability to manage a single copy of Windows and applications centrally instead of managing thousands of individual PCs separately. Centralized images and the ability to layer these images provide organizations with capabilities such as entire PC disaster recovery, fast and simple migrations, and centralized PC repair that people should expect from desktop virtualization solutions.”