AppSense, the leading provider of user environment management solutions for large-scale environments, today announced that its newly released Environment Manager 8.0 leverages Microsoft server technologies, providing a readily scalable and highly efficient way to personalize both virtual and physical desktops across the enterprise.
“Microsoft is committed to making it easier for customers to manage their IT infrastructure,” said Neil Sanderson, head of virtualisation at Microsoft UK. “With partners like AppSense onboard, Microsoft virtualisation technologies are giving customers a cost effective solution which can help them get the most out of their existing IT systems.”
“We built Environment Manager 8.0 on key Microsoft technologies, including Internet Information Server and SQL Server on the backend, to ensure a reliable, best-in-class personalization management solution for large infrastructures,” said Peter Rawlinson, VP Marketing for AppSense. “Environment Manager can help IT departments quickly build out fully personalized Microsoft desktops and migrate user data from legacy desktop operating systems to Vista—as well as move users from physical to virtual Hyper-V based desktops—all while reducing the cost and complexity of managing those environments.”
The only enterprise solution that enables standardized virtual desktop environments to be fully – and automatically – personalized, AppSense Environment Manager 8.0 accelerates virtual desktop adoption by rapidly configuring desktops and applications with a user’s personal and policy settings without administrator intervention. By decoupling both policy and personalization data from the desktop, managing them independently and applying them on-demand, AppSense’s user environment management solution lets IT use a combination of desktop and application delivery methods—such as desktop virtualization, presentation virtualization, streamed applications and local and provisioned desktops—and easily and transparently migrate large groups of users from physical to virtual desktops.