Having mobile technology as part of an organization's infrastructure means the products and services which were previously accessed on desktops or VDIs now must be available for the mobile workforce. Cloud computing is making this accessibility possible, and delivering the applications required by users in real-time is essential in order to ensure continued productivity no matter where the workforce is located.
VMware provides a wide range of virtualization and cloud solutions, but the company acquired CloudVolumes to integrate its real-time delivery technologies and give VMware customers a better way to deliver native applications.
Today's business environment demands innovative and game changing solutions that allow them to integrate the applications they need seamlessly without having to worry about the IT issues of the past, so they can focus on their core competencies.
This has led companies to turn to desktop virtualization to provide secure, anytime, anywhere access to desktops, applications and data. With CloudVolume as part of its solution, VMware will now be able to give its customers the ability to shrink their desktop and application infrastructure and what it costs to manage it, but at the same time delivering personalized experience to the end-user. This acquisition will allow VMware to build real-time application delivery for its end-user computing, software-defined datacenter and hybrid cloud services.
CloudVolumes is able to deliver applications in real time by using a technology called layering. This is a process of decomposing a Windows instance into a set of discrete pieces, and once these pieces are placed into separate layers they can be easily added and removed from the system. The speed is achieved because the applications in the layer are not being installed but instead simply being delivered, making the process of adding and removing applications much simpler.
"Customers are looking to modernize their existing Windows application delivery architecture to be more like mobile IT. The combination of CloudVolumes and VMware Horizon will allow customers to build a real-time application delivery system that enables all applications to be centrally managed, always available and up-to-date, and delivered to virtualized environments for desktop, server or cloud on-demand," said Sumit Dhawan, senior vice president and general manager of desktop products and end-user computing for VMware.
According to VMware, the transaction is expected to be immaterial to the company's financial results, and financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Edited by Alisen Downey