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Citrix's plans to make self-service part of the enterprise IT culture include a mechanism that makes it as easy for employees to add a new application to a corporate desktop as it is for them to install an extra app on their iPhones.
That's desktop in the metaphorical sense, not
as in a hardware category. Delivering desktops as an on-demand service
"can make a dramatic change," Citrix corporate vice president and
general manager, desktop virtualisation, Raj Dhingra told a media
briefing.
A Citrix utility called Dazzle uses a vaguely iTunes-like interface to
present the applications in the corporate catalogue.
Key to this approach is the way Citrix's desktop virtualisation strategy
separates the operating system, applications and user profiles,
combining them dynamically when a user starts a new session. So when a
user selects a new application through Dazzle, that program is added to
the 'recipe' for that individual's desktop.
Support staff are therefore freed from managing multiple system images
to suit the needs of different groups of employees, and at the same time
those employees don't face the complexity of a desktop cluttered with
applications they never use - or having to put in a support ticket
requesting an extra application and then waiting for an administrator to
get around to doing the job.
"Users are smart [and] they need to get things done," observed Simon
Crosby, chief technical officer for Citrix's virtualisation and
management division..
Dazzle's release is scheduled for mid December.
Stephen Withers travelled to Budapest as the guest of Citrix.
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