Continuing to build on its global momentum, RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, sharpened its competitive edge with the launch of a new version of its flagship product. RES PowerFuse 2010 offers the unprecedented ability to transform traditional desktops into dynamic user workspaces. Learn more about RES PowerFuse 2010.

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Continuing to build on its global momentum, RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, sharpened its competitive edge today with the launch of a new version of its flagship product. RES PowerFuse 2010 offers the unprecedented ability to transform traditional desktops into dynamic user workspaces. The solution enables organizations operating in Citrix, Microsoft and VMware environments to separate the desktop from the operating system, automating the management, creation and dynamic composition of user workspaces. RES PowerFuse 2010 also provides the essential context-aware, secure and centrally managed delivery of applications, data, printing and personalized settings to users irrelevant of their location, ensuring optimal end-user productivity. These critical features also enable IT professionals to more cost effectively manage and maintain their desktop environments day-to-day and when migrating to a new infrastructure. 

The unique Desktop Transformation capabilities of RES PowerFuse 2010 are what differentiate it from other alternatives available today. RES PowerFuse has the ability to transform an existing desktop into a dynamic user workspace using live data and a step-by-step approach that minimizes risk and impact to the desktop user. This process is driven by a suite of modeling tools that give organizations the ability to analyze, design and test transformation projects such as large-scale migrations to Windows 7 and desktop virtualization, prior to implementation.  This ensures a more seamless roll-out and minimizes the impact on end-user productivity. With more organizations migrating to Windows 7 and virtual desktop infrastructures in 2010, the ability to dynamically transform and seamlessly manage the user workspace will be critical in maintaining organizational productivity.

“The 451 Group sees desktop virtualization gaining ground in 2010. The most complete desktop virtualization offerings will combine terminal services, dynamic assembly, user management, server-, client- and cloud hosted desktops. RES Software is well positioned to centrally manage the complexities of these desktop transformations,” commented Rachel Chalmers, Research Director, Infrastructure, The 451 Group.

In addition to providing the industry’s first desktop transformation solution, RES PowerFuse 2010 offers customers operating on any desktop platform several additional features and enhancements, including the following:

• New Desktop Sampler, Workspace Designer and Workspace Model: These features provide the ability to sample and analyze existing desktops prior to workspace implementation, ensuring a smooth roll-out and minimal impact to the company.
• Zero profile technology: Provides a new method for storing and applying user settings independently from the user’s profile, alleviating profile management issues that often plague IT.
• Improved user interface: RES PowerFuse offers an upgraded interface that makes it easier to navigate, search, move and manage system settings.
• Support for Microsoft SQL Azure databases: Marking RES Software’s first move toward the cloud, RES PowerFuse now enables IT professionals to better take advantage of highly available, cost-effective Microsoft Azure, by enabling them to store configurations in this cloud setting.
• User setting restoration: End users are able to restore their own user settings, a task previously required of IT administrators. As a result, end-users are able to manage their own technology, reducing the need to call IT for assistance.
• Folder synchronization: Allows an IT administrator to set up and execute synchronization of local and network folders on all devices, download files and folders from the network to local computers and upload local files and folders to the network, thus making it possible to accelerate and support mobile adoption. 
  
  

“RES PowerFuse 2010 manages user workspaces, with its dynamic composition and excellent security mechanism, it saves the IT professional time and allows users to stay productive and safe wherever they are and on whatever device they are using,” said Bob Janssen, RES Software’s Chief Technology Officer. “User workspace management is the way forward to face every change in your desktop environment, now and in the future, at a lower TCO, without losing control and without compromising the user experience and productivity.”

New York, NY – February 16, 2010 – AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions for the enterprise, today announced record US revenue growth in 2009, including a substantial increase in the number of desktop virtualization product licenses sold during the year.

In 2009, AppSense sold 170,000 licenses of its user virtualization software for virtual desktops, representing close to 20 percent of all virtual desktops sold globally, and over 60 percent of all componentized virtual desktop seats sold. This resulted in a 45 percent increase in AppSense US revenue last year. AppSense products are used in a wide-range of industries, and 2009 growth showed specific traction in financial services, healthcare, higher education and public sector.

Within the last year, AppSense has also dramatically increased its presence in the US, opening a headquarters in New York City and technology center in Palo Alto, California. The addition of these new offices has increased the company’s US employee base by 50 percent.

"AppSense is continuing to build on the tremendous success we experienced this past year, and is focused on increasing our resources in the US and globally to invest in the future of the company and technology," said Charles Sharland, CEO at AppSense. "User virtualization is now firmly established as being essential to the adoption of virtual desktops within the enterprise. As the clear leader in this space, our goal is to continue to deliver award-winning technology and support that provides maximum value to our customers and partners around the world."

AppSense user virtualization technology enables corporate desktops to be personalized without the need for cumbersome profiles or scripts. From server-based computing environments through to virtual and physical desktops, user virtualization ensures users always receive a consistent, predictable and personalized working experience. Full desktops can now be configured and business rules applied on-demand, enabling compliant, personalized desktops to be quickly delivered to thousands of users. AppSense technology is used in conjunction with many third party systems integrators, including CSC, HP, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens and IBM.

"We see 2010 as being a transformative year for the desktop," said Martin Ingram, VP Strategy at AppSense. "We are seeing an increasing number of our customers moving towards a component-based desktop. With this comes the need to independently manage the user aspect of the desktop. That is user virtualization."

In addition to record growth, AppSense was also honored with a number of industry awards including Best Desktop Virtualization Solution in the Best of VMworld awards, Desktop Software Product of the Year at the Techworld Awards, and the Silver award in the Desktop Virtualization category for the SearchServerVirtualization.com 2009 Product of the Year Awards.

What Customers are Saying about AppSense Greg Matuskovic, IT director for EMB America: "In order to achieve user acceptance of the move to VDI, we needed to make sure the virtual environment looked just like a physical desktop - just without the performance issues. The AppSense solution actually performed better than we ever imagined. Crucially, AppSense Environment Manager does what roaming profiles could not achieve. It allows our consultants to work on multiple machines using one profile without impacting stability. We now run AppSense on all our virtual machines."

Andy Fisher, manager of technical services at University of Texas Medical Branch: "The decision to implement AppSense was very easy for us. From a product perspective we felt that the interface was easy to administer, intuitive, and well designed. We were also impressed by the way the AppSense team whole-heartedly backed their product and we were very pleased with the level of pre-sales service AppSense provided. The team responded to our technical issues accurately, assessed our environment thoroughly and provided demonstrations and face-to-face assistance at all times."

ALPHARETTA, Ga. and LAS VEGAS, Nev. – VMware Partner Exchange – Feb. 8, 2010 - - Liquidware Labs, the leader in Assessment and User Experience Management for virtual desktops, today announced the availability of Application Virtualization Assessment capabilities in Liquidware Labs Stratusphere v4.5.4.

The new functionality builds on Liquidware Labs’ already comprehensive approach to working with partners and organizations to assess and migrate companies to their next generation desktop strategy, including locally hosted or cloud-based VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop virtual machines.

Stratusphere’s Application Virtualization Assessment capabilities gathers complete data and usage metrics for existing installed applications in order to determine their fitness and complexity for application virtualization. The solution delivers the information in easily understood, yet comprehensive, inventory, resource requirement, and usage reports that give administrators and management the exact information needed for decisions involving application virtualization and planning for solutions such as VMware ThinApp, Citrix XenApp, and Microsoft App-V.

“We’re executing on our mission to be the de facto solution before, during, and after companies embark on virtual desktop and application strategies,” said Tyler Rohrer, COO and founder of Liquidware Labs. “Stratusphere provides the visibility needed to make informed architecture, and vendor choices, and assist them with the on-ramp for optimum workload placement, and application delivery methods. People use applications, not machines.”

Stratusphere’s Application Virtualization Assessment capabilities track and assess application data at several levels by first capturing a complete application inventory of assessed desktops, including laptops that are used offline. The solution then obtains detailed information on each application critical to determining its fitness and complexity for application virtualization including:

•Executable size
•System services installed and used per application
•Device drivers installed per application
•Total number of application users
•Average launch delay (application load time)
•Application usage (total and average time)
•Application resource requirements (total and average CPU, memory, IO)
•Application Graphics Intensity

Once the above metrics have been gathered, Stratusphere correlates the data and offers it to users in the form of a new One-Click Application Virtualization Target report that categorizes applications into Low, Medium, and High Complexity target groups. Detailed application inventory reports are also available that can be filtered by user groups (from AD/LDAP) or machine groups (locations, machine types).

ABOUT LIQUIDWARE LABS
Liquidware Labs™ (LWL) is the leader in Assessment and User Experience Management for next generation desktops including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. The company’s Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been described by analysts as the industry’s first “On-Ramp to VDI” by providing complete methodology and software that enable organizations to cost-effectively plan, migrate, and manage their next generation desktop infrastructure with best practices in mind. LWL’s comprehensive solutions provide Assessment, Personalization Management, User Configuration, and Service Level Assurance. LWL products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a global network of certified partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.

Liquidware Labs, Stratusphere, and ProfileUnity are trademarks of Liquidware Labs. All other products are trademarks of their respective owners; it is not Liquidware Labs’ intent to claim these as our own.

Leading provider of user environment management solutions utilises online meetings to collaborate, demonstrate and present

Chalfont, UK. – 2^nd February, 2010: – AppSense, a leading provider of user environment management solutions (UEM), has boosted its sales efforts and market expansion plans by using Citrix® GoToMeeting® to engage online with enterprises and their IT departments worldwide. The easy-to-use online web conferencing tool has also delivered 40 per cent cost savings due to the all-you-can-meet, flat-fee pricing model.

AppSense is using GoToMeeting to present the AppSense product portfolio to prospects and hold briefings with existing customers and partners. The reliability and rich features of the online meeting tool are enabling AppSense to provide flawless demonstrations of its technologically advanced solutions and hold sessions with multiple participants no matter where they are located.

GoToMeeting features AppSense is using to maximise the effectiveness of its online collaboration approach include:

• Annotation tools - to draw, highlight and point to items of interest on the screen
• Sharing capabilities - to instantly change presenter or share keyboard and mouse controls
• One-click meetings - that can be set up on the fly or scheduled via easy integration with Outlook
• Total audio - so participants can join via VoIP, phone or a combination of the two

“We spend a lot of time interacting with our prospects, customers and partners and being able to visually demonstrate new products and technologies is so much more effective than explaining it in words,” said Angela Cunvin, Marketing Manager. “GoToMeeting allows us to quickly and easily jump onto impromptu web meetings to talk through more technical aspects of our products, which makes the job of our staff a lot easier and their time more productive.”

With a focus on global expansion, AppSense has also rolled out GoToMeeting to its travelling employees, who need to collaborate with each other while they are on the road, as Angela Cunvin explains: “Real-time communication is key for our staff to work productively and effectively with an increasingly global customer base. GoToMeeting offers us the instant connectivity of email or a messaging service, but with the richness of collaboration achieved through face-to-face meetings.”

“Many businesses now operate multiple sites in worldwide locations, making face-to-face meetings expensive, inconvenient and difficult to arrange. AppSense is demonstrating how GoToMeeting can break down borders and enable companies to learn, share and collaborate, no matter where they are,” says Andrew Millard, Director of eCommerce, Citrix Online EMEA.

To learn more about GoToMeeting and to try the product free for 30 days, visit www.gotomeeting.com

About AppSense
AppSense is the leading provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise, with over ten years proven track record in the virtualisation space. User environment management is a proven method of reducing desktop management costs by treating the user environment independently of the desktop and delivery method. This separation enables IT to standardise the corporate desktop and automate the delivery of the user’s working environment, significantly reducing operational cost. For more information, visit www.appsense.com

About Citrix Online
Citrix Online provides secure, easy-to-use online solutions that enable people to work from anywhere with anyone. Whether using GoToMyPC® to access and work on a remote PC, GoToAssist® to support customers, GoToMeeting® to hold online meetings or GoToWebinar® for large online events, our customers are increasing productivity, decreasing travel costs and improving sales, training and service on a global basis. We have more than 35,000 small and medium-sized businesses using our products, and hundreds of thousands of individual professionals as customers. A division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), Citrix Online is based in Santa Barbara, California, with satellite offices and data centres throughout the world. For more information, visit www.citrixonline.com.

About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtualization, networking and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center, Citrix Cloud Center (C3) and Citrix Online Services product families radically simplify computing for millions of users, delivering applications as an on–demand service to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix customers include the world’s largest Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion.