Neocleus – A different take on desktop virtualization
Ariel Gorfung, CEO, Neocleus, and I had a fast paced, interesting discussion about the company’s notion of “endpoint virtualization” and how that can change how organizations deploy and use desktop and laptop systems. At first I had trouble really getting to the heart of what they were doing. Their use of marketing catch phrases and industry buzzwords actually obscured what they were really doing.
This led me to the belief that their approach was merely another implementation of desktop virtualization rather than something strikingly new. As I learned more, I came to the understanding that they’ve been looking at the same industry issues but have been working from a different vision of how these issues can be effectively addressed. Neocleus insists that many of the issues that exist in today’s “end point” computing environments can not be solve within those environments because the very structure of those environments gets in the way of an effective solution. The company asserts that the only way to resolve those issues is to apply usage management, security and other levels of IT administration from outside of the desktop operating system through the use of virtual machine software and management software for virtualized environments.
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