CHICAGO, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquidware Labs is pleased to announce that it has garnered important recognition for the relevance of its offerings to channel partners globally.  In addition to receiving Global Technology Innovator Partner of the Year Award at VMware Partner Exchange 2013, the company also has been named to CRN's 2013 Data Center 100 list.  This annual list recognizes technology vendors for powering, supporting and protecting today's data center services in an environmentally and economically friendly manner, while boosting efficiency and productivity.

"Liquidware Labs is pleased to be named to the CRN Data Center 100 list, which also includes many other luminaries in the virtualization and desktop space," said David Bieneman, CEO and co-Founder of Liquidware Labs.  "This honor, along with the recent Partner award from VMware, validates our offerings as business drivers for our global partner network.   We are gratified by this recognition of our contribution to helping organizations leverage datacenter and cloud resource pools to power their desktops.  At the same time, bringing desktop data, user information and applications into the data center offers an additional layer of control, security and recoverability for desktops.  This has been a long-standing goal for many IT managers, and we are making this goal become a reality today."

"The 2013 Data Center 100 list recognizes vendors that, over the course of 2012, have shown a dedication to the innovation and advancement of today's data center services," said Kelley Damore, Senior Vice President and Editorial Director for UBM Channel. "The recent upsurge in cloud computing has solution providers searching for new ways to ensure their clients maintain connectivity while mitigating costs and security threats.  We congratulate each vendor on the 2013 Data Center 100 list for providing a significant growth opportunity for solution providers to build their business by offering cutting-edge products and services to customers." 

Selected by CRN's editorial staff, the 2013 Data Center 100 list is featured in the January issue of CRN Magazine and will be featured online at www.crn.com.

Liquidware Labs was also a recipient of the 2013 Global Innovator Partner of the Year Award in acknowledgement by VMware in excellence in performance and distinctive achievements during 2012.

About Liquidware Labs

Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View®, Citrix® XenDesktop, Red Hat® and Microsoft® Windows 7. The company's innovative Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ FlexApp solutions deliver powerful features to accelerate critical desktop transformation phases. Liquidware Labs solutions support key phases including assessing existing physical environments, decoupling users and applications from the operating system and migrating to virtual platforms. In POC and production environments, Liquidware Labs solutions support managing the user experience and monitoring troubleshooting and optimizing end-to-end desktop environments. Liquidware Labs products are VMware certified, and are available through a global network of partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.

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CONTACT: Grace Krokidas, 678-397-0450, ext.104, grace.krokidas@liquidwarelabs.com

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