Etay Bogner: Client Virtualization - New Opportunities with Type 1 Hypervisor for Endpoints

1. Why Virtualize Endpoints?
(Answer: New Opportunities)
Etay Bogner
CTO, Co-Founder, Neocleus

2. So, what did you just see?
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3. Endpoints Today
One Intertwined Environment
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4. The Result
Huge Complexities

5. No One Magical Solution
REQUIREMENTS SOLUTIONS
Performance
Desktop Virtualization
Security
• Server Hosted
Agility
• Client Hosted
Flexibility
Application Virtualization
Mobility
Application Streaming
Remediation
Endpoint Management
Management Solutions
Multiple Persona’s

6. Still Monolithic With Major Challenges
CONTEXT
USER EXPERIENCE
INTERDEPENDENCIES
MANAGEMENT

7. Client Virtualization: Containers of Functionality
“Virtual Software Appliances”
• Full blown OSes as VSAs (!)
• Special purpose VSAs
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8. The Benefits of Client Virtualization
MANAGE USE CASE SECURITY / IT
NOT THE IMAGE OUTSIDE OF THE OS
CORPORATE PREDICABLE
IMAGE SECURITY/TRUS
OPTIMAL IT
PERSONAL
CONTROL/
PERSONA
MANAGEMENT
SPECIAL EASIER
APPLICATIONS REMEDIATION

9. The Technological Question
How to deliver a “High-Definition” User Experience
(under virtualization)?
– Performance
– Flexibility
– Yet, secure
=> A Type 1 hypervisor architecture helps us
– Pass-through devices
– Dynamic assignment and re-assignment of devices
– Trusted Computing from the ground up
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10. A Type 1 Client Hypervisor Architecture
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11. Random Thoughts
• Addresses and/or complements any and all end-user
use cases
– VDI: Offline use case
• Can utilize better local computing resources such as
graphics, storage and CPU/RAM
– Yet, fully dynamic
• The Hypervisor is part of the “device”
– A much smarter firmware than the BIOS
– “BIOS” functionality should be implemented as a VSA
• Eventually will be installed on all end-points
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12. New Opportunities
ISVS OEMS SERVICE PROVIDERS
• Deliver new • Improve value • Offer enhanced
solutions running • Software as an portfolio of
outside of the appliance software as a
“resource” • Out of the box service options to
expand revenue
• Complement VDI • Simplify the value • IT
• Offline use chain • Security
cases • Remote
• Security Access
• Facilitate new IT
paradigms