AppSense Announces Support for Citrix XenDesktop 4 with Leading User Personalization Technology

AppSense, the leading provider of User Environment Management solutions
for the enterprise, today announced full support for Citrix° XenDesktop™
4, a groundbreaking new Citrix product designed to make virtual
desktops a mainstream reality for hundreds of millions of corporate
employees for the first time ever.
“AppSense has been working closely with Citrix and our joint customers
for many years and we commend Citrix on this bold and significant move.
By combining two market-leading products and introducing FlexCast™
technology to accommodate every user type, Citrix has been instrumental
in further reducing the barriers to mainstream virtual desktop
adoption,” said Charles Sharland, Chairman and CEO, AppSense. “As the
only enterprise solution recommended by Citrix to provide comprehensive
desktop personalization for all users, we look forward to providing our
Citrix customers a way to scale their virtual desktop estates at lowest
cost and with maximum user adoption.”
AppSense, a Citrix partner of over 10 years with some 4000 joint
customers around the world, provides technology solutions that enable
low-cost, standard desktop images to be delivered to employees as fully
personalized desktops. This ensures maximum user adoption from just a
few corporate base images, reducing cost, complexity and risk. Their
User Environment Management solution is the only technology to provide
on-demand desktop personalization across all delivery methods and
operating system versions.
Based on this unique level of customer experience, AppSense is well
positioned to work in conjunction with Citrix FlexCast™ to provide
centralized management of the user personality for task workers,
knowledge workers and power users in both server and client-hosted
desktop environments.
“We look at the desktop in a different way at AppSense,” stated Pete
Rawlinson, VP WW Marketing at AppSense. “We effectively separate the
desktop into three layers; corporate operating system, corporate
applications and the user. By managing all aspects of the user
independent of the desktop, IT are able to standardize the corporate
operating system and applications, delivering them on-demand only when
needed. The combination of Citrix XenDesktop 4 and AppSense User
Environment Management enables companies to truly eliminate unnecessary
desktop management costs while ensuring users of all types receive the
very best working experience – even in the most heterogeneous
environments.”
This layered model looks to be the way forward for mainstream virtual
desktop adoption, as Rachel Chalmers of The 451 Group states:
“Separating out operating systems and applications and provisioning them
dynamically means that desktops can be assembled per session and
disposed of when the session is over. To make all of this work like a
physical PC, though, administrators need to store stateful user settings
and preferences elsewhere. Separating out this layer of user data is
what we call user virtualization. Citrix ecosystem vendors pioneered the
art of maintaining these user profiles in terminal services
environments, and AppSense has led the way in adapting it to desktop
virtualization.”
AppSense will be a sponsor at the upcoming Citrix global online event on
October 20, 2009, “Secrets,
Lies and VDI: Dispel the Myths and Uncover the Truth about Desktop and
Application Virtualization”.
Supporting Resources
Follow AppSense on the web for the latest news and information at:
Citrix
XenDesktop 4 page
Citrix
XenDesktop Community
http://www.appsense.com/community/
About AppSense
Founded in 1999, AppSense is the leading provider of user environment
management (UEM) solutions for enterprise organizations. UEM is a proven
method of reducing desktop management costs by treating the user
environment separate from the desktop and delivery method. This
separation enables IT to standardize the corporate desktop and automate
the delivery of the users working environment, significantly reducing
operational costs. AppSense technology is used around the world by
companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Lowes, United Airlines, Wachovia,
Wal-Mart, ESPN and CB Richard Ellis. AppSense has main offices in New
York and Manchester, England with additional offices in Palo Alto,
London, Munich, Melbourne and Amsterdam.

Source: Business Wire