AppSense Virtualization Journal

AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions, today announced record growth for the first half of its financial year 2012, July 1 to December 31, 2011. AppSense increased orders by approximately 46 percent during this period, a result of the significant increase in large deployments and increasing presence in industries beyond the company's strong base in finance, government, healthcare and education. During this same period, AppSense expanded its global workforce by nearly 40 percent. To accommodate this growth, the global increase in demand for user virtualization technology and in response to growing customer and partner needs, AppSense is expanding operations into Asia-Pacific and Latin America. In the second half of its 2012 fiscal year, the company will open offices in Brazil, Hong Kong and Singapore. In the past six months, AppSense has exp... (more)

Big Data Kills 30-Year-Old Market

Data Services Journal If you’ve got simply scads of data – and why wouldn’t you? – it’s doubling every 18 months – and are shuttling it to an application for analysis, you’re doing it wrong. That’s so…so, well, 1980. According to Aster Data, applications need to go to “Big Data,” not the other way around. And to do that the company’s got a massively parallel data-application server that can embed applications inside a massively scalable MPP data warehouse and analyze petabytes of data – or terabytes, if that’s all you’ve got – ultra-fast. Apps are automatically parallelized fo... (more)

AppSense Appoints Nick Lowe VP of Sales for EMEA

AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization technology, today announced the appointment of Nick Lowe as vice president of sales in the Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) markets. Lowe’s responsibilities will include overseeing all sales, services and strategic alliances within the EMEA region, as well as driving additional business in new EMEA territories. “Building on our success in 2011, including a $70 million investment from Goldman Sachs and a 50 percent growth in both orders and employee base, we are thrilled to add Nick to our senior management team to oversee bu... (more)

AppSense Teams with Enterprise Systems to Fuel U.S. Adoption of Virtualization Environments

AppSense announced that it is partnering with Enterprise Systems to extend its VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) offerings to customers throughout the U.S. Southwest, particularly those in the healthcare market. Based in Golden, CO, Enterprise Systems is "one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S." according to Inc. magazine and a "Computer Reseller News Fast Growth 100." It counts Denver Health, Memorial Health Systems and Bonfils Blood as healthcare clients. AppSense is the longstanding policy and personalization management leader in the healthcare market, with customer... (more)

AppSense Supports Citrix XenDesktop Virtualization

AppSense announced that AppSense Environment Manager, the user environment management solution, supports Citrix XenDesktop desktop delivery solution. AppSense complements XenDesktop functionality by enabling desktop policy and personalization management, accelerating and simplifying enterprise migration and management of VDI environments. User environment management provides the only scalable and cost-effective solution for delivering corporate policy and personalized settings on-demand to large groups of users and computers. “Citrix has been working closely with AppSense fo... (more)