Analyst Reports
Ovum - Excerpt from Solutions Guide: Desktop Virtualization
The global desktop/laptop PC business market is sized at 550–600 million devices. Although many have predicted the demise of the PC, the fact remains that PCs (laptops and desktops) are still the most common business IT tool. Desktop virtualization in its many forms represents approximately 15% of the business PC market. However, this figure is currently dominated by terminal services, which holds approximately 12% of the business PC market. This has remained fairly constant over the last 10 years. In fact, if terminal services are excluded, the remaining approaches currently hold less than 3% of the market. The ability to manage the applications and their delivery in a user-centric manner is a common characteristic that this new “desktop” environment needs if it is to deliver true flexibility.
IDC - The Wave of Change in Enterprise Client Computing (EMEA)
The biggest stories in the enterprise client environments in Europe are revolving around the next generation of dominant IT platforms — defined by divergence between traditional areas of challenges, such as increasing requests for mobility, end-user requirements, management processes, security, and controlling resources and costs, versus the new ways of responding to those challenges, OS migration, and the growing opportunity of client virtualization as a means to keep the OS and application layers stable and consistent.
The 451 Group - RES Software upgrades Automation Manager, adds free Express edition
As desktop virtualization becomes a mainstream technology and interest in desktops-as-a- service (DaaS) begins to spike, RES Software aims to capitalize on its years of experience managing and automating Windows workspaces. The company has upgraded its Automation Manager 2012 and has added a lighter-weight version of Workspace Manager 2011. It is working both through Citrix and on its own behalf to reach the service-provider community. All this follows a partnership with public-sector systems integrator immixGroup, an expanded relationship with Gotham Government Solutions and a key customer win in Waterbury, Connecticut-based Waterbury Hospital.
The 451 Group - The Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem Overview
User virtualization vendors offer a set of tools that have evolved to address the limitations of Microsoft’s roaming user profiles, especially in virtualized desktop environments. User configuration and application data is business-critical. Its absence or corruption impairs productivity and requires costly support. In virtual desktop environments, this data will be even more crucial.
The 451 Group - RES Software launches Baseline Desktop Analyzer, plans to open Redmond office
BDA should make it easier for organizations to plan application virtualization, Windows 7 migrations and XenApp rollouts as well as VDI. RES believes the desktop infrastructure of the future will be hybrid and intelligent. It will partake of lots of delivery modes, depending on what users need, what money and software licenses are available and how many resources are available to support everything. That's why the free BDA service is positioned as an onramp to the twin RES flagships: Workspace Manager and Automation Manager. Between them, the two products should help Windows administration teams dial up and down the degree of central control and the maintenance burden of the desktop fleet, as needed.
PQR - User Environment Management Smackdown Report
Are you looking for an independent overview of the User Environment Management solutions and curious about the different features- and functions each vendor is offering!? This is the report you definitely must read. In the current market there is an increasing demand for unbiased information about User Environment Management solutions. This report is focused on solutions that are anticipated to have an important role in Desktop deployments. An overview of available features of each solution is created to better understand each solutions capability. This report was originally published by PQR. For more information, visit http://virtuall.eu/.
The 451 Group - RES Workspace Manager 2010 (Formerly PowerFuse 2010)
"The inevitable onslaught of Windows 7 OS migrations that enterprises are facing resents a great opportunity for a user virtualization company like RES Software. The vendor's progressive approach to full management of VDI, as opposed to what it calls a 'Big Bang' approach, could appeal to IT shops that will undertake that massive task."
Butler Group - Technology Audit: RES Workspace Manager (Formerly PowerFuse)
"Butler Group considers that any company that is embarking on a new desktop delivery project or desktop migration initiative, or that simply has a requirement to improve the management of its remote distribution environments in a more flexible, resource-efficient, and worker-friendly way, would do well to take a considered look at the RES Software product"
The 451 Group - RES Software
"Almost a year after we last caught up with RES Software, the major virtualization vendors still haven't plugged the user workspace hole. True, Citrix nabbed Sepago and Microsoft has addressed some of the worst shortcomings of Roaming Profiles. However, these technologies offer no more than the basic level of functionality. We think RES Software will next address the area of desktop metering and measurement so that virtual desktops might be deployed as a service."
