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About Virtualaze is a privately held German based Cloud IT-Infrastructure Software Development Company specializing in remote Application and Desktop Virtualization, founded by industry veteran, entrepreneur and visionary Klaus Maier in 2009. History Maier brings together a long history of expertise that since around 1988, he founded several companies, such as KaMai Computersystems (System Integration) and hydrapark GmbH (R&D for virtual Desktop software solutions and FPGA Thin Client hardware). In 2003 Maier co-founded NComputing Inc., an US-based solution provider of proprietary Thin Client hardware for various Windows- or Linux Terminal Servers. Maier acted as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Software Architect. He managed several teams arround the world (Poland, Russia, Germany, India, USA). In 2008 Maier left NComputing in a management buyout scenario to concentrate fully on his own new “Virtualaze” project. In the following years up to now Maier established furthermore development teams and offices in Germany, Poland, Belarus and in Taiwan. The company announced to have branch offices in UK, Dubai, Turkey and the United States of America. Unifying multiple technology approaches and advantages In multiple press releases and on their homepage in 2017, Virtualaze states and concentrates on their own efforts on to developing the ‘next-generation’ of computing based on innovative and intuitive para-remote Windows application and desktop virtualization technologies. One of the missions of Virtualaze is to reduce significant the costs and complexity associated with Virtualization by simplifying how computing resources can be shared via a software only approach. Another approach of Virtualaze was also to supply a technology that could support any end-user(s) hardware device(s) and operating system(s) as well as access hosted Virtualaze Application and Desktop Virtualization Server(s) via Windows- (product: Unify, XP and higher) and Browser based HTML5 (UnifyPlus) Access Clients. As a green and sustainable side effect the Virtualaze technology ‘re-enabled‘ old redundant legacy computer devices instead of prematurely throwing them in to land-fill sites. Virtualaze technology is able to manage centrally and remotely multiple users, groups, applications and application servers via their deployment center server software (brokerage) from any device and from anywhere.

Products Virtualaze consists of two products: Unify & UnifyPlus Virtualaze Unify was launched in Q3 2016. It is an application virtualization (IT infrastructure) software that enables  Windows applications to be accessed via individual devices from a shared server(s) or a cloud system. Unify delivers centrally-hosted Windows applications to local devices without the need to install applications ‘locally‘ on an end-user computer device. The Virtualaze software employs the Deployment Center Management Architecture (DCMA) which is a proprietary architecture specifically developed for Virtualaze virtualization solutions. It delivers individual applications to hardware devices as opposed to delivering entire desktops. Additionally Virtualaze can be used to deliver applications as part of a complete virtual desktop environment. Unify and UnifyPlus, enable modern Windows 7, 8 &10 applications to be deployed on devices that typically can´t support them e.g. phased out operating systems like  Windows XP-SP3 and Microsoft Vista or Macintosh computers, mobile devices, and Google Chromebooks. Conversely, it enables incompatible applications that were assumed redundant to run on a more modern and new Windows desktops. Virtualaze Unify virtual deployed Windows Applications are accessed on all devices via Virtualaze ‘Workspace‘ security desktop. The Workspace software can be delivered from on-site data centers (public, private) or hybrid clouds. In Q2 2017 Virtualaze launched the next generation of client access solutions, 1. the Virtualaze UnifyPlus Cloud Gateway Server and 2. the HTML5 Application Launcher (Access Client). These products are software designed to connect remote users with the Virtualaze Application Server(s) via standard web browsers (on any client hardware). The server software is considered a "Gateway", it converts HTML5 code within the web browser to an enhanced Virtualaze Remote Application Protocol (RAP). The solution works only with SSL-certificates (https:\\...) over the internet. The key Benefits of UnifyPlus HTML5 Application Launcher are: - no software installation and maintenance at the client side necessary - Runs ontop of any client OS and client hardware - Enables Cloud-/Intranet Computing: remote printing, server clustering and automated data synchronization - BYOD support: separates local private computing/data from managed hosted productive virtualization computing

Server Side: Virtualaze Unify and UnifyPlus support (at the Server side) all actually maintained Microsoft Windows operating systems: The supported versions of Windows Desktop operating systems for VDI environments include: -	Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) Pro and Enterprise Edition -	Windows 8/8.1 SP1 (64-bit) Pro and Enterprise Edition -	Windows 10 (64-bit) Pro and Enterprise Edition The supported versions of Windows Server OS/s under Microsoft RDSH licensing: -	Windows 2008-R2 -	Windows 2012-R2 -	Windows 2016 Server Edition.

Client side: Hardware Support for: any -	Laptops -	PCs -	Thin Clients -	Tablet PC -	Raspberry Pi -	TV-set running one of the following 32-bit and 64-bit OS/s: -	Windows XP (SP3) -	Windows Vista -	Windows 7/8/10 as well all other non-Windows systems, such as Linux, Android, Apple, Google supporting the following browsers e.g. -	Microsoft Internet Explorer -	Microsoft Edge -	Google Chrome -	Firefox -	Opera -	Apple Safari and all leading browsers supporting HTML5 standards.

Distribution and Sales Channels Regarding their homepage, Virtualaze licenses their products only channel oriented via certified distributors, resellers, system-integrators and cloud service providers.

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Virtualization Layers for Virtualaze Unify and UnifyPlus

Intuitive Virtualaze Deployment Center – Management Tool

Intuitive Virtualaze Application Launcher Access Client Application start (Windows XP and higher and via HTML5/Browsers)

Brief company information: Type Private

Industry	Computer software

Genre	Virtualization and Hosting Automation

Founded	2009 Headquarters	Pleinfeld, Germany

Key people	Klaus Maier Products	Virtualaze Unify, Virtualaze UnifyPlus Website	www.virtualaze.com

Klaus Maier Wikipedia text: Klaus Maier (born in 1965) was the founder of KaMai-Computersystems, Hydrapark GmbH, a co-founder of NComputing Inc. and is the founder and CEO of Virtualaze GmbH Europe. He is recognized as a German entrepreneur focusing on new innovative Virtualization Infrastructure software platforms. In 1988, Maier launched KaMai-Computersystems as local IT system integrator and in September 1994 he founded Hydrapark GmbH, a German based Virtualization Software development company where he and his various development teams invented “NetMaker”, a NETBIOS compatible PC peer-to-peer network software and after that the team invented the first direct video drive Multi-User technology (One PC – many users, simultaneously) under MS-DOS, Windows 3.1(1), Windows98, Windows ME and Windows 2000 Server Edition. In the following years Maier worked on a System on Chip hardware and Virtual Desktop Software platform development. In 2003 he joined and co-founded NComputing, which started its business in South Korea and ended its business in the USA in 2015. At this time at NComputing Klaus Maier was a leading force & inventor of multiple System on chip, ASIC hardware platforms and a virtual desktop solution for Windows Desktop and Windows Server operating systems. By 2014 NComputing was the number one Thin Client vendor in Asia-Pacific and the third biggest Thin-Client vendor worldwide (IDC) with over 70,000 education and business customers and more than 20 million daily users in over 140 countries. During his time at NComputing Inc, the company raised more than 60 Million US-Dollars from leading Silicon Valley Venture Capital companies - Scale Venture Partners (formerly Bank of America), Menlo Ventures, Daehong Technew Corporation and Questmark Partners. Here, Klaus Maier held the position e.g. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Software Architect. Maier was also the largest individual private shareholder beside several institutional US venture capital partners. In 2008 Maier stepped down as CTO of NComputing at the end of the management buyout, but remained a private shareholder until NComputing ceased trading. In January 2009 Maier announced that he would focus all of his energies on a new virtualization technology software solution and this is when Virtualaze GmbH Europe, a private held German software development company was born. During this career Maier has filed multiple worldwide computer software and Thermo Dynamics patents.