Citrix Profile Management, Ivanti Environment Manager (formerly AppSense), Ivanti Workspace Control (powered by RES), VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (formerly User Environment Manager), Liquidware ProfileUnity, and Tricerat Simplify Suite.
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Ivanti Workspace Control (formerly RES One Suite developed by RES Software and supported by Ivanti since the 2017 acquisition) is a user virtualization and profile management suite.
Ivanti Environment Manager (formerly AppSense, acquired by LANDESK in 2016, which is now part of Ivanti) is an on-demand personalization tool for desktops, used to apply contextual policy on‑demand. Aims to provide fast logons, roaming users with robust, always-personalized desktops,…
Citrix Profile Management (formerly Citrix UPM) is a tool used for user virtualization and managing user data and maintaining adequate logon speed in a virtual environment. It is a component of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenApp and XenDesktop).
Dynamic Environment Manager offers personalization and dynamic policy configuration across any virtual, physical and cloud-based Windows desktop environment, and is a key component of JMP – the next generation of desktop and application delivery. The software is an evolution of…
ProfileUnity from Liquidware Labs is user virtualization software of use for designing a user's experience or migrating the user's data in a virtual environment.
The Tricerat Simplify Suite, from Tricerat in Owings Mill, Maryland, is a user and workstation environment management suite for managing a host of user profiles and virtual desktops, as well as peripheral devices.
Microsoft User Experience Virtualization or UE-V (formerly User State Virtualization) is user virtualization software for separately encapsulating and managing user data in the datacenter, providing accessibility and security.
User virtualization software tools enable users to run multiple operating systems on a single desktop computer or machine. It creates desktop virtualization where a desktop environment is a virtual machine stored on a remote server that can be managed independently. They are capable of hosting unique operating systems through an integrated hosting control panel. The main concept behind user virtualization lies in being able to access applications and operating systems you otherwise could not depending on your device.
Two types of user virtualization software include persistent and non-persistent virtualized desktop infrastructure. Persistent VDI means the virtual image on the user’s desktop can be personalized with the addition of data, shortcuts, and files. With non-persistent VDI, the computer reverts to its original state upon the user logging out. Non-persistent VDI is much easier to manage, requires less storage, and is easier to update.
User virtualization software is ideal for IT employees and developers who require multiple operating systems for their work and projects within a single environment. These products have evolved to the point where they can capture everything a user does on a non-persistent desktop image allowing the user to log back into a refreshed image and see everything just as they had left it. They have become a useful tool in computing and IT and will only grow in popularity and use and we become more dependent on technology and virtual products.
Persistent personas in non-persistent virtual desktop environments
Policy and profile updates based on changes in the environment
Rights management
Integration with Microsoft Active Directory
Allow users of non-persistent desktops to install applications without affecting the base machine image
Ability to connect and disconnect network printers
Ability to lock down desktop limiting access to storage, application installs, etc.
Desktop virtualization: host server can run virtual machines using a hypervisor.
Application virtualization: the application is installed on a central server and can be virtually operated on multiple systems.
Server virtualization: dividing the resources of a single server onto multiple virtual servers.
Network virtualization: Assists in the management of the computer network as a single administrative entity.
Storage virtualization: manages physical storage of multiple network devices in a single device.
