AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization technology, today announced the latest release of the AppSense User Virtualization Platform (UVP), which features significant enhancements aimed at both improving performance and enabling the next generation of user virtualization capabilities. AppSense UVP ushers in a new era for IT, providing the first complete solution to unlock the user layer and allow for IT to manage thousands of users as easily as managing a single user instance, while freeing users to work with the devices and applications that permit them to maximize productivity. AppSense will be demonstrating this latest version of UVP in booth 905 at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference taking place this week Los Angeles.
"The user experience is critical to the effectiveness and efficiency of the enterprise, and is increasingly becoming more complex for IT to manage as new desktop devices and computing infrastructures are used," said Ian Song, senior research analyst for IDC's Enterprise Virtualization Software program. "Technologies like AppSense user virtualization simplify the role of IT and provide users and IT with choice while improving performance and the overall experience."
This latest development represents a significant leap forward in the world of user-centric computing, and is embraced by leading AppSense partners. “AppSense and Microsoft have a long standing relationship, share the same vision of flexible working and anywhere access, and together enable organizations to adopt technologies that improve end user experience, reduce IT workload and improve operational efficiencies and costs,” said Ian Moulster, Desktop Virtualization Product Manager at Microsoft. “With this latest release, AppSense further enhances their already strong solution and I look forward to our continued joint success in the future.”
Enhancements of the latest AppSense UVP include:
New modular architecture: The underlying technology for the AppSense UVP features a new, optimized and highly modular architecture that increases the rate at which new features can be added while ensuring that the core technology platform retains the reliability and stability it is known for. It also yields a significant reduction in CPU and memory consumption for an even smaller footprint and improved performance and scalability. The new modular architecture is also crucial to future plans to extend user virtualization to tablet and smartphone devices.
Expanded policy and personalization capabilities: The latest release brings a rich array of new automated actions and conditions including the ability to govern behavior based on existence of specific files, folders, registry key/values, OS versions, environment variables, and date/time. Also in response to customer requests, the latest release allows text files within the desktop to be both modified and queried as a policy condition.
Enhanced management and control: The new release adds more granular controls over digital certificates and desktop session information, as well as a variety of new management and administration tools for database import/export/migration, Windows registry analysis, and system troubleshooting.
End-user experience improvements: Even as a more sophisticated set of personalization options become available, users will experience faster log-on times than ever. In addition, AppSense functionality is more tightly integrated into the Windows log-on and log-off experience, making user virtualization activities more transparent to users.
“User virtualization represents the next phase of evolution for desktop virtualization as enterprises try to figure out how to deliver multiple types of desktops simultaneously,” said Harry Labana, vice president and CTO of AppSense. “AppSense has been listening to the demands of our customers and this latest version of our user virtualization platform is a true testament to that. Not only does our technology address the current market need, but the new architecture lays the foundation for the quickly approaching future in which cloud and mobile technologies will reign.”
This latest version of the AppSense UVP is released as AppSense Environment Manager version 8.1 and is available through AppSense’s 350+ global network of Certified Solution Partners. You can also download an evaluation version of the software by visiting www.appsense.com.