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Pano Logic and Fujitsu Join Forces to Bring Zero Client Virtualized Computing to Enterprises Worldwide MENLO PARK, Calif. – March 2, 2010 – Pano Logic, the leader in zero client desktop virtualization (VDI), today announced Fujitsu, a $47 billion global business solutions company, will integrate Pano Logic’s ground-breaking zero client virtual desktop technology into a new Fujitsu desktop computing solution. The new Fujitsu Zero Client delivers dramatic cost of ownership savings, energy efficiency and security advantages by completely centralizing computing onto virtualized servers while connecting users through the industry’s first truly zero client-enabled LCD monitor.

3-02-2010

US Banker

Why Thin is Back In Crescent State Bank in Cary, NC, predicts moving its branch network to Pano Logic’s zero client desktop virtualization technology is producing savings in support, maintenance and energy use that could top $400,000. Having already rid several branches of PCs, replacing them with Pano Logic, Crescent is slashing the resources IT has had to devote to endpoint maintenance and support.

2-25-2010

Businessweek

Goldman-Backed Pano Gets $20 Million to Take On PCs Pano Logic adds venerable venture capital investor Mayfield Fund to its backers as it pursues a meaningful piece of the desktop PC market. Use of virtual desktops are expected to triple or quadruple in 2010, said Gartner analyst Brian Gammage, as more and more businesses discover the dramatic savings in support, maintenance and energy costs from switching to PCs to VDI. 

2-24-2010

Computerworld

Is Pano Logic the Only True Zero-Client Desktop Virtualization Vendor? Pano Logic stakes out the zero client leadership position by publishing its Zero Client Reference Architecture and, backed up by a Network World performance test that showed Pano Logic outperforms all other vendors, claiming superior performance from its endpoint device that contains nothing to support or maintain. 

2-24-2010

eWeek

Pano Logic Opens Up Its Desktop Virtualization Architecture Clearing confusion in the marketplace over what constitutes a zero client, and therefore delivers the promise of VDI with dramatically reduced computing TCO, Pano Logic publishes its Zero Client Reference Architecture to demonstrate there’s nothing – zero – in the endpoint that needs support and maintenance.

2-24-2010

District Administration

Zero Clients – Even Thinner Than Thin Clients By swapping out PCs for Pano Logic’s zero client desktop virtualization solution, Westerly Public Schools in Rhode Island enjoys a dramatic reduction in support costs, saving the district a projected $159,320 over a three-year period by migrating just a couple of computer labs.

2-23-2010

InfoWorld

Desktop Virtualization Clients: Fat, Thin, or Zero Pano Logic’s zero client Pano Device is deemed the only pure zero client in the market with its wicked fast performance and total absence of an operating system, CPU and memory.

2/17/2010

Microscope

In Depth: The Desktop Revolution Top UK technology publication examines the driving forces behind surging demand for desktop virtualization and Pano Logic’s UK head, Chris Hammans, points to the Windows 7 release and PC refresh cycles delayed during the downturn.

2/15/2010

TMCnet.com

Pano Logic Triples Sales in 2009 Companies facing the high cost of deploying and managing PCs are seeking alternatives and finding zero client computing is the answer, joining hundreds of organizations that have already made the switch.

2/08/2010

Channelweb UK

Calculating the Cost of Desktop Virtualisation Pano Logic’s UK managing director Chris Hammans offers insight on working with enterprises to help make the case for desktop virtualisation.

2/11/2010

K-12 Virtual Roundtable

K-12 Virtual Roundtable School District IT managers Mark Lamson and Jim Peluso set out to create a outlet for their peers to learn about the benefits of desktop virtualization. As Pano Logic customers, they staged a roundtable with Pano Logic’s own Parmeet Chaddha to discuss the company and technology as well as the benefits of schools opting to virtualize computing for their classrooms using zero client computing.

2/05/2010

PC World

NY Hospital Cuts Power Bill With Thin-client Virtualization One of the largest hospital systems in New York – and one of the city’s biggest electricity users – slashed its energy bill by $175,000 by centralizing computing onto the servers with the Pano Logic desktop virtualization platform and replacing PCs with Pano Logic zero clients.

2/03/2010

SearchVirtualDesktop

The Pros and Cons of Small Virtual Desktop Vendors Innovative IT managers are moving to virtual desktop solutions that fit their organizations. Pano Logic user Crescent State Bank is a terrific example. Faced with managing nearly 200 employees and 15 branch offices with just two IT staff members, Crescent deployed Pano Logic and is realizing tremendous savings.

1/25/2010

School CIO

Rhode Island District Saves Money, Time and Space with Zero-client Software School CIO take a close look at the success Westerly Public School District in Rhode Island has had with Pano Logic. The progressive K-12 school runs on a system with a total of seven schools serving more than 3,300 students. The main data center at the high school houses three Dell R900 servers, which are used in production, and two Dell 2950s, which are used for desktop virtualization. To maximize efficiency, Westerly has deployed 35 virtual machines on these two servers and has seen an increase in time savings, security, energy and physical space.

1/25/2010

ChannelPro

Pano Logic Eyes Aggressive Channel Growth Pano Logic unveils an aggressive plan to expand in the UK with a new channel partner program designed to accelerate partner enrollment and profitability.

01/18/2010

SmartPlanet.com

Rhode Island School Thinks ‘Zero’ in Quest to Extend Tech Budget Venerable tech writer Heather Clancy of CBS Interactive's Smart Planet examines the benefits one school district discovered by eliminating PCs in favor of zero client computing with Pano Logic virtual desktops. Learn how the Westerly public school district in Rhode Island maneuvered the challenges of limited space, air conditioning resources and electrical availability as well as staff time and software costs with Pano Logic.

01/18/2010

ITWorld.com

What I've Learned About Desktop Virtualization Reflections from Kane Edupuganti, St. Vincent’s Director of IT & Operations, on what he’s discovered about desktop virtualization since rolling out VDI and Pano Logic’s zero client devices. Says Edupuganti, “I knew about thin clients, and none of them at this point were zero clients. All of them had some sort of proprietary operating system, processors or flash memory in them. No one truly had a zero footprint client. But then we looked at the Pano, and thought, 'Wow. This is incredible. There's no processing, no memory, nothing. It's so easy...'”

01/15/2010

SmallBizTechnology.com

Why A Bank Ditched PCs For Simple Terminals: Should You? A 15-branch bank in North Carolina has embarked upon a major technology upgrade that features swapping out PCs in the branch offices and deploying Pano Logic virtual desktops. 

01/08/2010

VentureBeat

Pano Logic’s Shiny Box Claims $750 a Year Savings for Office Desktops Top emerging tech pub VentureBeat examines the savings Pano Logic virtual desktops represent over PCs from equipment costs to licensing.

01/12/2010

Computerworld

Servers Get a Makeover in 2010 Computerworld examines how organizations are extending the benefits of server virtualization to the desktop with input from Robert Beach, Director of IT Services for Seminole County, Fl, on leveraging his VMware infrastructure to add Pano Logic virtual desktops to move as much support into the data center as possible. Beach was honored by Computerworld in its Class of 2010 Yearbook as an innovator. His perspective on what’s hot and what’s not was summed up as: “Hot: Zero-client computing. Not: Fat-client desktops.”

12/29/2009

ChannelWeb

Cool Emerging Vendors from A to Z: Pano Logic ChannelWeb points the spotlight on Pano Logic as Cool Emerging Vendor making “quite and impact in the IT channel.” Says ChannelWeb: “As midmarket firms climb out of the recession, refreshing outdated IT infrastructure is a priority. Pano Logic's desktop virtualization offering provides low total cost of ownership and simplified IT management for customers.”

12/21/2009

Network World Review

VDI Shootout “Its simplicity is bliss” says Network World of Pano Logic in a comprehensive review of top desktop virtualization vendors. The industry scorecard named Pano Logic’s cube-shaped Pano Device the Best Hardware for VDI over other vendors and called the Pano Device “wicked fast” with a “very simple” setup.

12/21/2009

ITBusiness.ca

Pano Logic Wants to "Radically Change" Desktop Computing Space with VDI ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News examine Pano Logic’s completely centralized approach to computing against the backdrop of the company’s plans for Canadian expansion. Says Dana Loof, exec VP: “Even though we're 100 per cent channel, we're 200 per cent devoted to the channel.”

12/15/2009

V3.co.uk

Review: Pano System Alan Steven of V3.co.uk (formerly VNUnet.com) puts Pano Logic through the paces and determines that Pano Logic “addresses the limitations of alternatives based on traditional thin client hardware. It copes well with the demands of modern desktop users, yet retains the advantages of centralised provisioning and management associated with thin client solutions.”

12/07/2009

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Rebooted Computing Labs Offer Savings for Campuses and Ambiance for Students Jeffrey Cunningham, director of IT for a University of Maryland department, deploys Pano Logic in one computer lab to slash the cost of providing computing to students. A side benefit was lower cooling costs, as Pano Logic zero clients generate no heat so the room required less air conditioning.

12/06/2009

ZDNet UK

Shiny, Shiny, Shiny The First Take technology blog on ZDnet UK takes a look, quite literally, at Pano Logic’s zero client Pano Device, the shiny chrome cube, which also comes in black, that connects end users to the simplest and most efficient and cost-effective desktop virtualization solution.  Pens writer Alan Stevens about Pano Logic: “A very neat and effective solution, users get the look and feel of an ordinary desktop PC (complete with sound and the ability to plug in printers and local storage devices) while network administrators get centralised management and automated provisioning tools.”

11/30/2009

ChannelWeb

The 25 Most Innovative Executives Of 2009 Pano Logic CEO John Kish was named one of the 25 Most Innovative Executives of 2000 in ChannelWeb’s annual Top 100 Executives of 2009 feature. Writes ChannelWeb: “Server virtualization has driven huge profits and sales gains for solution providers over the last several years. But the desktop virtualization boom is just beginning. And Pano Logic is at the forefront of that boom with its all-in-one desktop virtualization offering. Since taking the CEO reins one year ago, Kish has provided the leadership and strategic direction necessary to bring Pano Logic to the masses. That includes a rich solution provider program. We think 2010 is going to be a blockbuster year for Kish, desktop virtualization and Pano Logic.”

11/25/2009

HowStuffWorks

The Office of the Future Discovery’s HowStuffWorks points a spotlight at Pano Logic in its weekly technology podcast with tech reporter Jonathan Strickland. The dialogue between Tech Editor Chris Pollette and Strickland, who examined a zero client Pano Device and spoke with Parmeet Chaddha, Executive Vice President of Engineering, points out the benefits of desktop virtualization with Pano Logic. They discuss the savings in equipment, support, and energy use that Pano Logic represents as well as the ease and simplicity for the IT teams.

11/24/2009

Investors.com

Virtualization Trend Moving To Desktop As Benefits Emerge Growth in the UK with the recent hire of former VMware executive Chris Hammans helps establish Pano Logic as a leading desktop virtualization solutions as companies take note of the benefits of VDI, prompting growth estimates for the coming year.

11/18/2009

InformationWeek

Desktop Virtualization a Remedy for Hospital Dumping desktop PCs and replacing them with zero client desktop virtualization from Pano Logic solved a series of problems for one large New York healthcare provider. Access to bedside patient health care records systems improved, billing backlogs disappeared and energy use declined. Further, the hospital can now provide better security for patient privacy. According to the article, hospitals are by nature lacking in physical security, with throngs of people coming and going at all times. "What if someone walks in and picks ups a PC and walks out with it?” said the director of IT. With a standard PC, the thief would get all the data located on that system's disk, but if a thief were to steal a zero-client device, the data would still be safe in the data center.

11/16/2009

Computerworld

VMware has New View of Desktop Virtualization Pano Logic CEO John Kish suggests that first-time desktop virtualization adoptees should take a simpler approach at the outset before forward.

11/11/2009

CNET News

New York Hospital Revives Ailing Computing Network A look at how Pano Logic solves a health care crisis by replacing fat and slow PCs, which were bogging down on the network. The result was a large New York hospital system was able to provide better access to patient care using electronic medical records as well as smooth out billing backlogs.

11/10/2009

Indian Gaming


Chumash Casino Resort Adopts New Technology Solution Magazine case study of the positive experiences of Chumash Casino Resort in deploying Pano Logic to slash equipment and support costs. Travel time to a new remote facility for end user support was draining IT resources. The answer was desktop virtualization with the Pano Logic zero client, which deployed in under an hour, slashed the time IT spent setting up individual users from six hours to 30 minutes and enabled IT staff to manage all users from their own offices, eliminating many support visits to the new facility. IT expects to save $1,475 for every user switched from a PC to a Pano Device. “And those are numbers you really can’t argue against. Pano Logic significantly decreases our management requirements. We’re not troubleshooting hard drives or video cards, or calling Dell and managing the entire resource piece anymore,” said Chumash IT head Peter Saccullo.

11/01/2009

Virtualization Review

A VDI Success Story Bruce Hoard of Virtualization Review chats with Kane Edupuganti of St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center about the dramatic improvements in user uptime and significant decreases in desktop support calls he’s enjoyed since deploying Pano Logic throughout St. Vincent’s 42 New York City locations. "The minute we deployed the Pano Logic solution based on VMware's VDI solution, the lags went away, and within a week, medical personnel were able to catch up on almost 300 backlogs being closed in the emergency department," Edupuganti declares. "They love the performance, and they kind of actually became our marketing tool within the hospital. The word spread from the emergency department to the radiology department to the cardiology department and so on."

10/27/2009

The Register

Startup Makes Thin Clients Look Chubby Pano Logic receives a warm reception at VMworld 2009 with Rik Myslewski of The Register lauding the Pano Logic’s zero client Pano Device, saying, “Zero is quite descriptive of the Pano Device's complexity, although not of its capabilities.”

9/27/2009

CRN

VARs Urged to Jump on VDI Wagon With desktop virtualization poised for dramatic growth, CRN’s Doug Woodburn in the UK discusses with Pano Logic CEO John Kish new reseller opportunities in the space. “We have a unique approach. The end point we sell contains no processor, operating system or software,” he said. “This makes us different from thin clients or PCs - everyone else is trying to retro-fit existing technologies.”

10/9/2009

V3.co.uk

Pano Logic Scales Up Zero Client for Global Push V3.co.uk examines Pano Logic’s 2.8 release, with increased scalability, backup and recovery and dual monitor support, against plans for expansion in the UK with the singing of STL Technologies as a chief UK channel partner. Among the benefits of Pano Logic discussed was centralized management. Says CEO John Kish:  “Unlike thin clients or PCs, no processing occurs at the endpoint. Customers can centralise all compute cycles in the datacenter.”

10/07/2009

Digital Media Buzz

Virtual Desktops: Dumber is Better  Digital Media Buzz contributor Ned Smith talks to Parmeet Chaddha, Pano Logic’s EVP of Engineering, and customer Henry Country Hospital about why the dumbest client device is best. “We’re actually proud to say our end point is dumb as it gets. But, this is a dumb terminal that will give you a full, rich Windows experience,” Chaddha says.

10/20/2009

ChannelWeb

Keeping It Simple With Pano Logic 'Zero Clients'  Pano Logic got the Emerging Vendor spotlight from ChannelWeb’s Damon Poeter, who told his readers they should take note because Pano Logic’s desktop virtualization offering provides low total cost of ownership and simplified IT management for customers. “For a company that has yet to celebrate its second birthday, Pano Logic has already made quite an impact in the IT channel,” Poeter penned.

10/16/2009

NetworkWorld

Pano's 'Zero' Client Gets Dual Monitor Boost IDG’s John E. Dunn in the U.K. met with Pano Logic CEO John Kish to talk about the importance of removing all processing from the user endpoint as well as Pano Logic’s October 2009 release, Pano System 2.8, which features dual monitor support and greatly expanded scalability and end user experience. "There was a fair amount of work on the back end," admits Pano's president and CEO, John Kish. "The part nobody thought we could do is to keep the processing away from the endpoint."

10/07/09

Eye of the Needle - internetnews.com

That is One Shiny, Dumb, Clever Piece of Hardware In a recent visit to Pano Logic headquartes, David Needle, West Coast Bureau Chief for InternetNews.com, interviews CEO John Kish on the benefits of Pano Logic's zero client purpose-built for desktop virtualation.

08/28/09

eWeek

Pano Logic Rolls Out Latest Desktop Virtualization Offering eWeek reporter Jeffrey Burt discusses the Pano System 2.8 release and the new Pano Dual Monitor product, interviewing Parmeet Chaddha, Pano Logic's EVP of Engineering who said Pano Logic is bucking a trend in desktop virtualization, centralizing all key elements while other VDI options, such as thin clients, continue to bulk up. "What you’re seeing is not thin clients, but thicker clients,” said Chaddha.

10/07/09

By the Bell

Well-known industry ROI expert, Steve Kaplan, gives an example of the potential ROI for an organization using VMware View to virtualize 1,000 PCs and laptops including replacement with Pano System zero client devices.

09/27/09

Heathcare IT News

With healthcare professionals in need of increased computing mobility, this article highlights how Pano Logic can assist IT environments where desktops are shared among roaming users. By moving data off the desktop and instead running Windows XP from virtual infrastructure and servers in the data center, hospitals can save money on PC upgrades and electricity costs, as well as improve security.

7/31/2009

Virtualization Review Magazine

The Disappearing Desktop: How VDI Is Changing the Game

Delving into the challenges IT faces in today's Windows environments, this article reviews the hosted desktop virtualization landscape and the Pano Logic solution, saying that the Pano System takes "the thin-client concept one step further" by delivering a zero client that has "no drivers and embedded OSes, requiring less management and further reducing costs."

1/01/2009

 

BusinessWeek

Companies Seek PC Alternatives  his BusinessWeek.com special report covers why more and more businesses are seeking alternatives to the traditional PC. In order "to cut costs and go green," IT managers, including Pano Logic customer St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers, are adopting virtual desktops. Kane Edupuganti, director of IT operations and communications at St. Vincent's, says that since deploying the Pano System his team has noticed a number of benefits including a decrease in the amount of time spent getting a new desktop up and running for a new employee, and savings on the initial cost and management of a desktop.

1/05/2009

Virtualization Review

A Virtual Desktop Education  Keith Ward, editor at Virtualization Review magazine, interviewed Jeff Cunningham, the director of Information Services for the University of Maryland's College of Agricultural and Natural Resources, about his Pano Logic virtual desktop deployment. Among the savings the department has experienced, Cunningham says he "estimates that since installing the Pano devices, their administrative burden has been reduced by about 25 percent." He concludes that the school's migration to desktop virtualization has been "a home run."

3/01/2009

 

ZDNet

ZDNet's Jason Perlow calls Pano Logic's solution "revolutionary" in this review of the Pano System.

5/10/2009

 

Wall Street & Technology

This article tracks Wall Street firms' efforts to go green and includes Chicago-based Buttonwood Group Trading, a Pano Logic customer, explaining how they adopted the Pano System to deal with power and cooling issues. David J. Dugan, Buttonwood's COO, comments that the power-friendly Pano deployment is "a nice, clean space and [the setup] creates an ergonomic, clean desk." The article also states that another benefit Buttonwood has realized is that it is now "using 10 percent of the power it would need to run conventional desktops."

6/17/2009

 

Channel Insider

Replacing Desktop PCs with Zero-Client Solutions Frank Ohlhorst, the Executive Technology Editor for eWeek Channel Insider, looks at zero client and thin client offerings from Pano Logic, Wyse and Teradici and finds that "Pano Logic does achieve something unique with its device and software by eliminating the need for any proprietary hardware in the server room and reducing the client component to a small device that only uses 3 watts of power and supports USB connectivity." The article concludes that "For solution providers looking to build out VDI-based zero-client deployments, Pano Logic offers the quickest and easiest way to accomplish that goal."

3/25/09

 

Virtual Strategy Magazine

Read how virtualization of desktop PCs can provide the same savings in energy, and reduction in carbon footprint and greenhouse gases, as that produced by earlier server consolidation efforts – especially as an organization's PCs can consume as much as three times as much power as a data center. As part of Virtual Strategy Magazine's April Green edition this two page article by our CTO Aly Orady covers the background of centralized virtual desktops, the savings they provide, both from a smaller carbon footprint and in the reduction in e-waste from discarded PC's and PC packaging, and closes with a discussion of deployment challenges and other benefits from improved efficiency for both IT and PC users.

4/10/09

 

ChannelWeb

ChannelWeb, the CRN & VARBusiness website, identified the new Pano System 2.6 as number 7 in the top 25 solutions to check out at the recent HIMSS09 Healthcare IT event held in early April in Chicago, IL. The editorial listing said that virtualization remains a hot topic in health care as in everywhere else and included Pano Remote, a new product working with Pano System 2.6 that turns traditional desktop computers into secure Pano devices without the need for a VPN.