Symantec has introduced Symantec Endpoint Virtualisation Suite, which it says is designed to improve end-user productivity and lower the cost of managing endpoint devices. It will be locally available in April.
The product offers portable, on-demand user workspace management, and provides a comprehensive solution for creating and managing workspace elements and environments in traditional, virtual and mixed client computing models, the company says.
The product lets customers provision anything from traditional endpoints to full virtual endpoint workspaces based on standards that are hypervisor-, operating system- and hardware platform-agnostic. The solution provides heterogeneous support across traditional endpoint and emerging end-user computing environments, says Symantec.
“The suite integrates endpoint virtualisation technologies from the recent acquisitions of AppStream and nSuite, and includes feature enhancements to other products in the portfolio. Symantec Endpoint Virtualisation Suite enables the separation of information from underlying IT infrastructure so information can be managed easily, protected completely and controlled automatically,” says the company.
John Thomas, manager of the endpoint management business unit at Symantec, says it allows Symantec to put end-user productivity at the centre of the IT process. “By decoupling the user experience from the computing environment, we help make users immediately productive over the full range of endpoint technologies, thus allowing businesses to make the best use of their existing resources and reduce IT costs.”
Michael Rose, analyst at IDC, says Symantec has entered the market strongly, with its vision to combine endpoint virtualisation with the other elements of its portfolio. “By coming in at a higher layer on the stack, we see it focusing on cross-platform management and offering a lot of value, especially for customers of their other endpoint control products, like DLP, endpoint management and their storage and security solutions."
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