Tranxition talks about VDI and desktop personalities
Tranxition's product manager talks about the VDI market and the company's latest desktop management solution that automates the migration of user environments and desktop personalities for virtual desktop environments
Follow @infoworldTranxition has just announced the release and availability of LiveManage for Virtual Migrations 7.0, software that enables automated, intelligent abstraction of all essential user customizations from traditional desktops and migration to new virtual images, transporting what is needed and nothing more.
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The latest version of the software builds on the company's existing ability to preserve, protect, and transport desktop personality, adding new capabilities, documented processes, and licensing specifically for virtual desktop implementations.
LiveManage decreases the cost of managing desktops by securely extracting and transferring the desktop personality which includes application customizations, metadata, templates, connectivity data, custom dictionaries, data files, and customizations beyond those saved in Windows Profiles.
To find out more about Tranxition and their role in the VDI market, I spoke with Amy Hodler, director of product management at Tranxition.
InfoWorld: Can you explain why enterprises should manage both user environments and desktop personalization?
Tranxition: Users have the innate need to customize their surroundings to make them more familiar, which results in higher efficiency and productivity. However, management complexity and costs drastically rise as soon as users begin to personalize the baseline operating system and installed applications of their desktops. Companies that can recognize and manage this apparent contradiction will be able to reduce desktop management costs without sacrificing end-user productivity. This means organizations can more freely implement and reap the benefit of standardization initiatives if they actively manage the user environment, including all essential end-user customizations and the data that comprise a desktop personality. Managing the desktop personality by abstracting it from the operating system and applications enables IT to then manage desktops with more efficiency which results in a positive impact on user productivity and business enablement.
