A management software vendor has released software that helps IT managers oversee and maintain the "personalities" of virtualized desktop PCs according to an article on ITnews.com
The article discussed how Tranxition Inc’s software, called AdaptivePersona, saves labor and storage resources for IT administrators and keeps employees happier and more productive. The firm plans to show off the software at the VMworld show in San Francisco next week.
The little-known 25-employee firm has been around since 2000 and has a small family of software called LiveManage, which helps corporate desktop administrators preserve the data and settings on workers' PCs as they are migrated to new hardware or upgraded operating systems.
This feature allows the transition to virtualized hardware appear seamless to individual PC users in the workplace. This software is key, the company says, in keeping employees happy during the sometimes bumpy road to virtualizing large scale environments.
This makes the client computers easier to manage, update, and make secure; this according to virtualization advocates. Unlike older solutions such as Microsoft Corp. or Citrix System Inc.'s terminal services, the virtualized desktops feel to end users almost like a full local desktop. Prior to this software’s debut, a full virtual machine with all of the user's Web cache and passwords, Outlook e-mail .PST files, instant messaging history, Microsoft Office files and customized Windows settings can quickly become big, slow, and complicated to manage. This is the complete opposite of the effect desired when corporations decide to virtualize.
Remember, 100% of Fortune 500 companies have already virtualized. This is not to say that without this software, virtualization will result in one big hunk of mess and unhappy employees after a virtualization project. Instead, this development can be chalked up to the “technological luxury” board and makes the virtualization process seem slightly more smoothed over than normally. For the average employee, retyping passwords, outlook configurations, and favorite websites is a task that can take only half of a dull Friday afternoon. However, in the eyes of employers, the software not only keeps employees happy but gives them more time to check out facebook…err work on those Friday afternoons.
In all seriousness, the program will only increase the efficiency of one of the smartest decisions any sized company with over 12 servers can make. This should provide YOU even more incentive to check out the virtualization section of our website and start adding commas to your bottom line.
Joe Carretta
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