ASG Software Solutions, the pioneers in workspace aggregation, today
announced the introduction of CloudFactory 8.1, the latest version of
its enterprise cloud solution suite. The 8.1 release continues to aim at
closing the traditional gap between Business and IT by providing an
optimal user experience and an ultimate degree of efficiency for
accessing applications, content and IT services through individualized
and easily customizable workspaces.
ASG believes that Dynamic Hybrid Workspaces and IT Service Stores are
the two topics that will influence the future of enterprise IT in the
most drastic way, helping to truly turn the IT department into a
powerful source of competitive advantages. ASG combines both principles
with CloudFactory 8.1.
The tight integration between the dynamic hybrid workspace
(ASG-CloudCockpit) and ASG’s IT service store (ASG-CloudStore) enables
greater productivity, security, compliance and overall ROI. CloudFactory
8.1 offers business users, developers and IT operations teams the tools
to be more productive and self-sufficient, while the entire business
reaps greater value from existing IT investments in core infrastructure
technologies by Citrix, VMware and Microsoft.
CloudFactory 8.1 goes significantly beyond simply delivering virtualized
desktops, by providing end users with dynamic, hybrid workspaces that
include content from private and public clouds as well as from legacy IT
environments and local devices. Applications can be delivered to these
workspaces via existing Citrix (ICA) and Microsoft (RDS) technologies or
via ASG’s new AppMirror, an agentless HTML5 remote application delivery
technology. AppMirror is a cost effective fully integrated application
delivery solution that complements Citrix, VMware or Microsoft
technologies by offering significant cost savings for a variety of use
cases. Until the end of 2015, AppMirror is delivered as part of
ASG-CloudCockpit at no additional cost.
“Today’s IT-savvy business professionals are very particular in how they
access and use business applications, data and services,” noted Steve
Brasen, managing research director at Enterprise Management Associates.
“ASG’s dynamic hybrid workspaces provide a customizable environment with
an integrated app store that empowers users to work in the manner they
prefer in order to achieve greater productivity and increased job
satisfaction.”
ASG-CloudFactory, release 8.1 also includes advanced integration of
ASG’s IT service store (ASG-CloudStore) with ITSM solutions,
eliminating traditional silos between enterprise IT and cloud through
automated provisioning and management of new service requests. This
results in better compliance, security, capacity management, release
management, infrastructure monitoring and cost control.
“With the CloudFactory 8.1 release we are placing 100 percent focus on
addressing two of today’s core pain points in enterprise IT: 1)
Providing a dynamic hybrid workspace that delivers an individualized
user experience to corporate staff and 2) Enabling end users to
provision all the applications, platform and infrastructure resources
they require in a self-service manner,” said Torsten Volk, vice
president of product management, cloud, ASG Software Solutions. “With
this latest version we’ve really honed in on user experience and
compliant user self-service. All of this results in an increased ROI in
the form of better employee productivity and greater value from IT
investments in Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and ITSM technologies.”