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AppSense User Virtualisation:

Infrastructure Solution to Managing the User Environment

User virtualization is a way of managing all user-specific information independent of the desktop and applying this information into any desktop on-demand.  User virtualisation enables IT to:

• Standardise the corporate desktop build
• Automate desktop delivery
• Migrate users to new desktops easily and efficiently
• Ensure a seamless, personal, predictable and easily manageable user experience

The Virtualised User Interface from AppSense (VUI)

In the same way that delivery of operating systems and applications to the user requires an infrastructure, so too must the user environment. The AppSense Virtualized User Infrastructure manages everything specific to a user. This user environment contains; user-based corporate policy, personalization settings, user rights management and user-introduced applications. Infrastructure management tools optimize the user environment. Enterprise-class reporting and auditing tools provide visibility into the user environment; ensuring users have the best working experience. The infrastructure delivers the user environment into virtual, physical and streamed desktops and applications - or combinations of those mechanisms - and also can apply the user environment across operating system versions (e.g. XP, Vista and Windows 7, Server 2008, 32/64 bit). For existing desktops, migration capabilities move employees into dynamically delivered, standard desktops seamlessly.

AppSense User Virtualisation Offers Cost Reduction Solutions

• Reduction in Profile Corruption
• Faster User Logon Times
• More Users Per Server/Server Consolidation
• Improved Quality of Service/Reduced Server Lockups
• Reduced Application Management Costs
• Limit Carbon Footprint and Data Centre Costs

Migration

Physical to Virtual Desktop Migration

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

Managing and storing user settings independent of the desktop - physical or virtual - enables the organisation to be more flexible in how desktops and applications are delivered to users. With user virtualisation 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.

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