Sychron announced support for Microsoft Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008. Sychron's support means that customers using HyperV environments can now deliver and manage fast and cost-effective virtual desktops using Sychron's OnDemand Desktop, the company's flagship virtual desktop management solution. This announcement underscores Sychron's commitment to remain agnostic to the hypervisor layer while providing a feature-rich management environment for virtual desktops of all types.

OnDemand Desktop has been already been providing robust virtual desktop brokering, rapid and goal-oriented provisioning, scalable load balancing and system management on VMware ESX, Microsoft Terminal Services and Microsoft Virtual Server. Sychron now offers the same capabilities on Hyper-V. The company is an active member of the Microsoft Partner Program, and Hyper-V customers will be able to leverage best practices developed by Sychron to enable optimal virtual desktop deployments.

"Microsoft Hyper-V provides customers with server virtualization technology that will further accelerate the aggressive adoption of virtualization solutions," said Steve Kiser, CEO of Sychron. "Given our focus on supporting multiple platforms and delivering faster provisioning times, we are excited to be one of the earliest supporters of Hyper-V. We look forward to working with Microsoft to make virtual desktops a reality for even more organizations."