AppSense Supports Citrix XenDesktop with Extended Policy and Personalization Management

By VSM News Staff
published: Tuesday, May 20 2008

AppSense User Environment Management Solution Accelerates Enterprise Adoption of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

Houston, TX, May 20, 2008 – AppSense today announced, at Citrix Synergy, that AppSense Environment Manager, the leading user environment management solution, supports Citrix XenDesktop™ desktop delivery solution.   AppSense complements XenDesktop functionality by enabling desktop policy and personalization management, accelerating and simplifying enterprise migration and management of VDI environments.  User environment management provides the only scalable and cost-effective solution for delivering corporate policy and personalized settings on-demand to large groups of users and computers.

"Citrix has been working closely with AppSense for many years, and we are delighted to extend this relationship into the desktop virtualization market," said Sumit Dhawan, senior director of product marketing, Citrix Systems.  "Policy and personalization are critical to delivering on our vision of a dynamically assembled desktop where apps, OS, and user preferences are kept separate and desktops are delivered on demand. With Citrix XenDesktop and a robust user environment management solution from AppSense, all of our enterprise users will have access to a fresh, new, personalized PC every time they log on."

"XenDesktop is a compelling solution that allows companies to virtualize Windows desktops in the datacenter and deliver them on-demand to users," said Pete Rawlinson, VP Marketing, AppSense.  "As a Citrix Ready Partner, we are pleased to offer our user environment management solution complementary to XenDesktop.  Our solution optimizes user experience, simplifies policy and personalization management, lowers the cost of enterprise-wide VDI migrations and enables dynamic personalization of the Citrix ‘on-demand' virtual desktop.  As Citrix continues to evolve its virtualization product line, AppSense products will also evolve to add more value on top of these industry-leading software platforms."

With AppSense Environment Manager, enterprises can fully realize their virtual desktop investment. It separates user "personality" from the virtual desktop-essentially abstracting user policy and preference settings from the OS and applications and applying them on-demand as each fresh desktop is provisioned. This not only drastically lowers management and storage costs but enables user personality settings to be portable across other desktop delivery mechanisms. This simplifies delivery and maintenance of the virtual environment by removing the need to treat each environment as a unique entity.

AppSense Environment Manager:  Capabilities Overview

AppSense Environment Manager provides policy and personalization management for multiple delivery mechanisms including virtual desktops, published applications, streamed and provisioned desktops and applications.  It enables desktop administrators to enforce corporate policy, define personalization settings and manage user profile data.  

Manages policy and user personalization

Corporate policy and user preferences can be applied as soon as the user starts or connects to a server, desktop or session or logs on to published or streamed application.  

Simple and flexible control

No complex installation is required. A flexible rules and actions model allows administrators to tailor both policy and personalization under different startup, shutdown, logon and logoff scenarios.  

Personalize pooled and provisioned desktops

By configuring virtual desktops when a desktop is started, IT can pool virtual images and utilize on-demand provisioned desktops in a heterogeneous environment.  

Enterprise management, deployment, auditing and reporting

Easily manage the working environment for thousands of users with instant policy deployment, visibility into policy usage and personalization requirements.  

Availability

AppSense Environment Manager is available today through authorized resellers.  For more information on how to purchase the solution, go to www.appsense.com/purchase 

Citrix Synergy Participation

Citrix Synergy attendees can learn more about AppSense's approach to profile and personalization management by visiting AppSense booth # 204 and by attending "User Environment Management - dynamic personalization of your virtual desktops," on May 21st, 2008, in which AppSense will discuss the role of user environment in virtual client computing.

About AppSense

AppSense provides technology solutions that personalize and optimize virtual and physical user environments. User environment management provides users with a consistent, contextual and secure working environment regardless of the way the environment is delivered to them. Applications delivered via virtual desktop, streaming, publishing and provisioning, as well as physical desktops, are delivered in a predictable and stable working environment to all users all the time. AppSense solutions have been designed for desktops and servers which are based upon the Microsoft Windows platform. AppSense operates through a world-wide channel of certified partners with offices in the US, UK, Germany, Netherlands and Australia. www.appsense.com.