vWorkspace is an enterprise virtual desktop and application delivery solution for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure and the Microsoft Windows Terminal Server platforms - embracing and extending both to deliver highly resilient and scalable on-demand desktop deployment and application delivery for enterprises worldwide.
Quest Software vWorkspace is the only commercially available solution delivering the most comprehensive feature-set to:
- consolidate the delivery of applications (including support for streaming)
- consolidate the deployment of desktops from:
- terminal servers
- blade or physical PCs
- virtual infrastructures such as VMware VI3
What features are available in vWorkspace (Enterprise Edition)?
- The entire vWorkspace framework supports virtual and physical desktops
- ALL of the following standard features:
- Print-IT (EMF and PDF universal print driver for client, LAN, and WAN printing)
- MetaProfiles-IT (advanced user profile management)
- Manage-IT (server-based session / desktop configuration and lockdown)
- Max-IT (CPU utilization management and virtual memory optimization)
- USB-IT (redirection of USB-connected handhelds - BlackBerry, Palm, and Pocket PC)
- VIP-IT (per-session IP address assignment)
- Block-IT (access control for blocking access to unsanctioned applications and network servers)
- Redirect-IT (per-user file and registry redirection)
- TimeZones-IT (per-session time zone assignment)
PLUS
vWorkspace (Enterprise Edition) includes four individual functional modules, offering the following enterprise deployment features:
- Provision-IT®
- Application publishing
- Server-based desktop publishing
- Content publishing
- Tight integration with the Softricity platform (import and publish SoftGrid virtualized applications)
- Application- and server-level load balancing
- Seamless windows
- Session sharing
- Screen Resolutions up to 4096 x 2048
- Multi-monitor support
- Credentials pass-through
- Kerberos-based authentication and pass-through
- Smartcard authentication
- Remote password reset
- AppPortal (similar to the Citrix Program Neighborhood)
- AppPortal desktop-integrated (similar to the Citrix Program Neighborhood Agent)
- Web-IT®
- Multiple-farm access
- Credentials pass-through
- Two-factor authentication (RSA, Secure Computing, RADIUS)
- Client auto-detection and download
- Application auto-launch
- Client device location identification (i.e., automatically redirects external users through the SSL gateway)
- Remote password reset
- Load-balanced using Microsoft NLB or third-party load balancer
- Secure-IT®
- Secure single point of access to firewall-protected Terminal Server farm
- Enables Windows clients to access a Provision-IT Terminal Server farm using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
- Intermediates all inbound traffic destined to Web-IT (Web interface)
- Ideally placed in the DMZ
- Load-balanced using Microsoft NLB or third-party load balancer
- Proxy-IT®
- Enables any RDP-enabled client (i.e., legacy thin clients, MACs, Linux, rdesktop, etc) to connect to a Provision-IT® load-balanced Terminal Server farm
- End user experience can either be a server-based desktop or an appbar populated with the user’s application set
- Load-balanced using Microsoft NLB or third-party load balancer
Who needs vWorkspace (Enterprise Edition)?
- Organizations that own an earlier version of Citrix MetaFrame and wish to extend the existing feature set without incurring the hefty costs of upgrading to Citrix Presentation Server 4.0.
- Organizations that wish to expand their existing Citrix farm, but are faced with budgetary constraints, leading them to look for a viable alternative to Citrix MetaFrame and Presentation Server.
- Organizations that own Citrix Presentation Server licenses and are either considering renewing their Subscription Advantage (software maintenance) or permanently replacing Citrix with a functionally equivalent, less expensive alternative.
- Organizations that are disappointed by the poorly-engineered Citrix-like features and the limitations of various Citrix alternatives in the marketplace today. Common Citrix-like features found in these alternative solutions include:
- Application Publishing
- Load Balancing
- Seamless Windows
- Web Interface
- SSL Gateway
- Organizations that have so far managed without the Citrix-like features, but would like to have them at a fraction of the cost of a Citrix license.
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