CloudVolumes Helps Enhance VMware Horizon 6 with Enterprise Application Workload and Desktop Management Virtual Appliance

CloudVolumes Helps Enhance VMware Horizon 6 with Enterprise Application Workload and Desktop Management Virtual Appliance

Interoperates with VMware Horizon 6 for easy application management, user personalization and instant provisioning, and adds published application support

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(April 9, 2014)--CloudVolumes, the company that virtualizes everything above the OS, today announced CloudVolumes for Horizon, which will simplify the management of applications, personalization of user experience and dynamic provisioning for all Horizon 6 virtual desktop types. Interoperable with VMware Horizon, this solution will be delivered as a simple easy to use CloudVolumes Virtual Appliance available on VMware’s Virtual Appliance Marketplace. IT will now have high performance, native and ThinApp application management for both VDI and published application virtual desktop environments, while saving on costs like storage, networking and compute. Horizon users will be able to install their own applications and have those apps, user settings and profile roam with them within a persistent or non-persistent desktop environment, providing management cost savings while retaining a persistent user experience. IT will be able to instantly provision services to any Horizon 6 desktop to enable a best in class user experience and will also be able to provision workloads into generic RDSH pools to eliminate the need for silos of applications servers.

“VMware Horizon 6 can increase IT efficiency by providing advanced management for desktop provisioning,” said Erik Frieberg, vice president, Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware. “CloudVolumes enables us to extend our application management tools so that users can easily manage their entire lifecycle, while having the ability to lower costs through pooled virtual machines while users continue to have a persistent look and feel. Through this collaboration, IT can manage applications all through a single point of administration.”

VMware Horizon 6 will simplify desktop and application management, while increasing security and control for IT. This enables companies to experience agility of desktop services and experience high availability, which gives users the freedom to access desktops and applications from a variety of devices and locations.

CloudVolumes for Horizon is built to manage the entire lifecycle of an application, from initial installation and updates, to seamless replacement. The CloudVolumes Virtual Appliance for Horizon enables central management of all applications and also provides the option for having a single copy of the workload across all virtual machines. CloudVolumes eliminates the need for any packaging, modification and streaming for applications when provisioned, and they are made availably dynamically for the user to access immediately upon login. Additionally, Horizon 6 users will be able to have the ability to install their own applications, and have their user settings retained even while using a non-persistent desktop.

“We have worked with VMware to provide an entirely new experience, which enables user-time-to-productivity through a faster and easier virtual desktop manager for IT,” said Harry Labana, SVP and chief product officer, CloudVolumes. “With CloudVolumes for Horizon, users will experience native performance while IT can manage applications dynamically across multiple data centers, clouds, devices and environments. We will enable customers to lower costs by reducing software and hardware requirements, and streamlining their entire application management process.”

Product features:
1. Single platform:
a. Scales to multi-data centers, cloud and desktop as a service (DaaS)
b. Supports desktop publishing with common apps across VMware VDI and RDSH
c. Desktop and server provisioning to eliminate server silos
d. Most effective use of non-persistent VMs including demanding power-users
2. Ease of Management:
a. Delivered as a virtual appliance for immediate setup, test and deployment
b. Native installed apps and ThinApp support for department and user installed apps
c. Ability to update apps by simply adding volume that contains the changes
3. Dynamic on-demand operation:
a. Instant entitlement and user personalization at login or at runtime in live VM
b. Update and patch without powering down or logging out, based on policy
c. Business agility and continuity by provisioning apps to any generic VM
4. Resources optimization:
a. Single copy storage of apps for vCenter wide availability
b. Minimum use of network resources, no boot storm
c. Native performance with no reduction of density or scale

Pricing and availability

CloudVolumes for Horizon launches in Q2 2014 and will have an introductory price of $49/user. For more information please visit /products/for-horizon/

Supporting Resources About CloudVolumes

CloudVolumes helps businesses solve their complex management, scale, and performance problems with the cloud and virtualized datacenters by virtualizing everything above the OS. Customers rely on CloudVolumes to provide solutions for terminal servers, desktops, and servers, eliminating lock-ins of service providers and hypervisors. CloudVolumes works with a customer’s existing environment to dynamically deliver server or desktop workloads to any generic virtual machine providing instant access to applications, data, and profiles. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. For more information, visit /.

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