Application Jukebox Enterprise Edition offers virtual application delivery at lightning speeds
Deliver any Windows app to your users—with full performance and complete control—by streaming Windows-based apps from the Cloud
VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) and server-based computing pull your IT department in one direction with the promise of lower costs and centralized management.
But Windows applications that live on your users' local machines have superior performance and much higher user acceptance so your users are likely to be dissatisfied with application performance from many virtual application delivery solutions. This makes delivering applications to virtual desktops (application delivery over VDI) potentially problematic, as organizations are discovering.
With the Application Jukebox™ streaming apps solution for your enterprise, you can have the best of both worlds: virtual applications delivered with high user acceptance and performance with the power, control, and low cost of centralized management.
Here's what you and your users do for Application Jukebox setup:
- The Application Jukebox™ player—about the size of an IM client—is downloaded to your users' PCs.
- With Application Jukebox Studio, you convert your Windows® apps to cloud-ready, virtual Windows applications.
- You make your virtual Windows® apps available to your users through an intranet or Web page. Custom applications or sets of apps can be established for groups or individual users. Centralized streaming of large applications (like Adobe Photoshop and AutoCAD software) is no problem. Application Jukebox works with all Windows apps in the cloud with no performance hits.
- Users simply click on "Launch"—then their streamed application appears in their Start Menu and Desktop. It looks (and performs) just like a local app.
- You control all user access.
- You can provide an app to a contractor or business partner for a limited amount of time, then pull the application license back to reuse for the next partner or contractor.
- You can get reports on which users are running virtual desktop applications and when, whether they need to be connected for access, and the length of time they have access.
- You can integrate the reports with standard database queries. This is useful, for example, when you want to bill different departments for access.
Here's how Application Jukebox application delivery works:
- You package each application for centralized application delivery with Application Jukebox™ Studio software and publish the apps to Application Jukebox Server.
- When you package the app, you can choose to run it in full isolation mode (to eliminate conflicts), full integration mode (to have the app talk to other streamed applications), or in configurable mode (isolating only those conflicting bits of the app).
- Application Jukebox™ technology is the only application virtualization software that allows this type of configurable virtual isolation/integration.
- See our Virtualization Datasheet (PDF) for more information on the different types of virtualization.
- Customize your Windows application "store" (Windows app delivery store) as much as you want, or use our templates. You use AD Group Policy to define who gets access to which streamed apps.
- The server streams the application to the user's PC via the Application Jukebox player, which runs in the background.
- When about 10% of the blocks are streamed, the app will launch, leading to a much faster user experience—90% faster than typical software installations.
- The rest of the blocks are either streamed on-demand (on-demand application streaming) or fully streamed in the background, depending on your preferences. The application is streamed to an encrypted cache on the user's machine, which means the local machine does the heavy lifting. But when the session ends, the cache can be cleared, leaving no trace of the app on the user's hard drive.
Sample use cases of Application Jukebox streaming application solution:
- Employees, contractors, and/or business partners need access to expensive Windows applications, but only for a limited time, such as the duration of a specific project. The Application Jukebox approach allows you to move licenses from one user to another.
- If you have a highly distributed environment and a lot of resource intensive apps—like Photoshop, AutoCAD, or Interwoven—the Application Jukebox solution is a perfect choice for user performance and centralized management of streamed virtual applications.
- If you have a VDI initiative to provide streaming apps over VDI, how are you delivering Windows applications to users? Putting the user's apps on each image will lead to unwieldy image sizes, making it harder to realize VDI cost savings. The Application Jukebox player on the virtual desktop gives users access to all their virtualized applications without ballooning the image. (See our white paper: “Delivering Applications to Virtual Desktops.”)
