XenDesktop 4
Citrix XenDesktop 4 is a groundbreaking new product that makes virtual desktops a mainstream reality for corporate users. XenDesktop 4 has new FlexCast™ technology to support every major desktop virtualization platform in a single integrated solution.
XenDesktop 4 reduces TCO, improves ROI, simplifies management and will extend the benefits of virtualization to every employee in the enterprise, further simplifying desktop computing by integrating all of the existing functionality from the Citrix XenApp™ product line.
AppSense User Virtualization technology is the only enterprise solution recommended by Citrix to ensure users always receive a consistent, predictable and personalized working experience at the lowest possible cost.
AppSense is a Citrix partner of over 10 years with some 4000 joint customers around the world. AppSense technology works with XenDesktop to 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. AppSense technology is fully integrated with XenDesktop 4 FlexCast™ to ensure all user types - from task worker to power user - experience the highest quality working experience.
As stated in the Citrix XenDesktop 4 Press Release, "AppSense Environment Manager is already fully integrated with XenDesktop 4 and is the only enterprise solution recommended by Citrix to ensure users always receive a consistent, predictable and personalized working experience at the lowest possible cost."
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For task workers sharing a similar set of applications, the most secure, cost-effective approach is a shared, server-based virtual desktop. Citrix XenApp™ technology gives each user a published desktop and application set ideally suited for these job types. Through a combination of policy and profile management, application entitlement and performance optimization, AppSense ensures task workers experience a secure and responsive desktop experience, while providing IT with the ability to manage the utilization of desktops to further reduce cost. Click here for more details.
For workers who need more personalized desktops, the hosted virtual desktop model is the best approach. By running each user's desktop in a dedicated virtual machine, this combines the benefits of central management with full user personalization. Used in conjunction with XenDesktop, AppSense technology enables low-cost, standard desktop images to be delivered to employees as fully personalized desktops, ensuring maximum user adoption from just a few corporate base images. AppSense provides on-demand desktop personalization across all delivery methods and operating system versions. Click here for more details.
Power users running high-end professional applications, blade PCs in the datacenter can also be an attractive option. This approach offers all the benefits of centralization, but ensures dedicated processing power for each user by hosting only one desktop per server. With AppSense, the user personality can be managed from one central location and applied on-demand into a corporate desktop when needed. This also applies for dedicated blade PCs. These power users are able to swap out operating system and applications, and also install their own applications on top of the standard corporate images without affecting their personal settings.
XenDesktop 4 supports a range of client-side options, including the ability to stream desktops to each user's device to run locally, while still managing the OS, apps and data centrally. AppSense is the only desktop personalization technology to operate regardless of desktop and application delivery method, and accessing device. Whether the user's desktop is locally-installed, server-hosted or client-hosted (or even combinations of these), all user settings are seamlessly added to a low-cost standard desktop image as needed. Click here for more details.
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