Enterprise Migration Solutions

Whether you are migrating users from a legacy operating system to a new one, or moving users from a physical PC to a virtual environment, AppSense technology removes the burden of managing the user data migration – significantly accelerating the migration process and ensuring user satisfaction post migration.

Physical to Virtual Desktop Migration

Desktop virtualization provides a significant opportunity to reduce desktop management costs by standardizing on corporate desktop ‘images’. Moving large amounts of users from unmanaged and disparate desktops to a small number of standardized, centrally managed virtual desktops also reduces risk as well as endpoint maintenance costs.

However, moving users to standard desktops can be met with resistance. Nobody likes change, especially when the freedom of their own PC is replaced with a standard, impersonal, corporate desktop. So how can IT realize the benefit of migrating users to a standardized environment while ensuring high user adoption?

The Solution

With user virtualization, user data within the physical PC is first identified, decoupled and moved to a central store. The user can then be moved to a standardized virtual desktop. When the user accesses this standard image, the user data extracted from their PC is dynamically applied, recreating their PC environment. Any subsequent personalization settings are then persisted between virtual desktops sessions, ensuring the user always has a familiar, personal experience.

Operating System Migration

Whenever a desktop needs to be upgraded to the latest operating system version, the user experience is compromised. User specific data can often be tied to a specific operating system version and so traditional, migrating users to a new OS has proved an unsatisfactory process. In much the same way as physical to virtual desktop migration, user virtualization reduces risk, time and therefore cost, by managing this user data.

User preferred settings are automatically identified, abstracted from the existing desktop stored in a central location. These settings are then reapplied to the new operating system upon access by the user, ensuring the settings follow the user from one operating system to the next.

Roaming Users – Physical, Virtual and Multiple Operating Systems

Managing and storing user settings independent of the desktop – physical or virtual - enables the organization to be more flexible in how desktops and applications are delivered to users. With user virtualization you can use a combination of physical and virtual desktops, possibly mixing operating systems, and still ensure their personal settings are applied, providing the user with a consistent and personal experience and achieving user support and adoption.