What Is App Volumes? Key benefits Traditionally, desktop components – such as applications, user data, and custom settings – were tightly coupled with the operating system. App Volumes decouples that arrangement, separating the applications into packages, which you can define. App Volumes uses an entirely different package for persisting user changes between sessions. As an IT admin, this makes it easier for you to apply updates, and to make small changes to individual applications quickly. It means you can update or modify these elements without creating a whole new desktop image, and make these updates or modifications available to your end users that much faster. App Volumes reconstitutes each element on-demand when your end users need it. You can deliver just-in-time desktops and applications across any infrastructure topology, and to any device. Provides powerful, streamlined app and user management Whether your virtual desktop and RDSH/published application environments are powered by Horizon or by Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, App Volumes simplifies management of both applications and users. App Volumes supports enterprise-scale capabilities such as streamlined updates and assignments, quick and easy rollbacks, and application lifecycle management. App Volumes make it easier to deliver applications, update applications, assign applications, and manage the lifecycle of applications – and users – across virtual desktop (VDI) and published application environments. You can apply context-aware user policies and profile management through App Volumes, which provides secure and personalized access to desktops and applications. Lowers costs without sacrificing user experience App Volumes can lower costs while continuing to deliver a customizable and persistent user experience across desktop sessions. App Volumes reduces management costs by efficiently delivering applications from one virtual disk to many desktops or published application servers. App Volumes delivers zero-downtime updates, and one-to-many provisioning which lowers storage and operational costs. App Volumes supports a stateless desktop that does not sacrifice user experience for lower cost. You can manage applications in volumes, which reduces storage capacity requirements without impacting network and compute resources. You can decouple OS images and applications, which helps reduce the number of images to manage. Offers a reliability platform for cloud-based environments App Volumes provides reliability, consistency, and extensibility. App Volumes provisions applications faster, delivers context-aware user policies, and isolates applications as needed for a personalized, reliable, and consistent user experience. Application delivery and user management services are built on an extensible platform for cloud-based technologies. App Volumes includes out-of-the-box integrated services, such as app delivery, user management, and monitoring for cloud-based environments. App Volumes also includes built-in integrations into Horizon and Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure which enable you to utilize both from the same UI. Supports Horizon, Citrix, and RDSH environments Supported environments for App Volumes include Omnissa Horizon, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, and RDS-hosted environments. Horizon – App Volumes is included in Omnissa Horizon Enterprise. If you have Horizon, you have App Volumes and the real-time application delivery, application isolation, and user management features that App Volumes provides. Citrix – You can optimize your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop, XenApp, or XenDesktop environment with App Volumes. App Volumes allows real-time application delivery, application isolation, and user management, which can enhance your investment in XenApp and XenDesktop. RDSH – You can enhance your RDS-hosted environment with App Volumes to achieve real-time application delivery, application isolation, and user management. ©️ Omnissa LLC. Document | 7