Endpoint virtualization is a (mostly) new set of technologies aimed at abstracting the end user experience - typically their logical desktop, application, and/or workspace environments - from the physical systems they rely on to provide that experience - typically a physical desktop or laptop PC. It is variously known not only as endpoint virtualization, but also as desktop virtualization, application virtualization, workspace virtualization, end user virtualization, client virtualization, and more.
- Endpoint virtualization covers many different models, and includes Application Isolation
- Remote Application Virtualization
- Local Application Virtualization
- Application streaming
- OS streaming
- Remote (server-hosted) desktop virtualization
- Local (client-hosted) OS virtualization
- Client-Side Hypervisor
- Browser-based applications
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)
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