The excitement was palpable today at Synergy as Citrix announced the release of XenDesktop 7. There is little irony in the fact that the entire audience was snapping pictures, capturing video, live tweeting and more from their mobile devices as Citrix announced they were bringing Windows apps and Desktops to the mobile world.

If you are like me, you live on a variety of devices and change those devices several times a day, yet your job and the work you do doesn’t “change.” Take this blog as an example. I started it on my desktop based Dell laptop. I then continued it on my iPad and made last minute

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Let's take a typical example of a simple service IT delivers to end users: applications This service should be pretty straightforward and quite easy for IT to manage. It breaks down into a handful of steps.

IT gets a request from an end user, requesting access to a specific application

IT puts the user in an Active Directory Application Group or Organizational Unit

IT uses an application provisioning solution like System Center Configuration Manager, application virtualization or application publishing, to install, distribute or grant access to the requested application

Application will then be available to the end user on their device

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By Klaus Besier CEO, RES Software

I’ll make a prediction: the days of RES Software and AppSense competition are nearing their end.

If you’ve looked at our workspace virtualization space, you know there are really only two players out there. (Yes there are others, but they provide point solutions or solutions that only work within VDI rather than today’s hybrid desktop infrastructures.) In terms of end-to-end workspace virtualization providers it’s “us,” RES Software, and it’s “them,” AppSense. And it’s been that way for years.

AppSense is the best kind of competitor to have. They spring from the same space as RES Software, but they’re pursuing a starkly different vision. And it’s this

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You’ve upgraded your desktops. You’ve upgraded your data centers. But have you upgraded the IT experience for users? Years and years ago if a user wanted a service from IT, they would call the help desk and open a request or ticket. That could be a request for applications, printers, a new peripheral or even a password or pin reset. The user’s whole experience with IT requests was dominated by a call to the help desk and then: hurry up and wait. Why? Because that help desk agent had to seek approval requests, do resource discovery, acquire the requested service and then deliver the service to the end user. All ... READ MORE>>

On April 8th we released Automation Manager SR4. Below you'll find a list of the most important changes in this release. Please download the release notes from our support portal to read the full list of new features and enhancements.    New features: PowerShell 3.0. support: Automation Manager now fully supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 and enables administrators to copy paste existing Powershell 3.0 scripts into a secure, efficient and controllable Module that can be delegated to virtually anybody within or outside of IT. Support for Windows Authentication when using Microsoft SQL Server: To support environments with high security requirements Automation Manager now support Windows Authentication when connecting to the Microsoft SQL ... READ MORE>>