It's really amazing what ends up taking more time and effort, isn't it...
So the other day a prospect who's been running Horizon View for several years now and been unsuccessful at virtualizing a lot of their apps told our partner that they flatly did not believe we could layer their difficult apps. Four they pointed out as examples and requested to see layered in real time were Visual Studio, Photoshop, Quark Express, and Microsoft Navision. This is completely understandable as these are very difficult apps that are rather infamously difficult to virtualize and are almost always crammed into a special gold image for a specific subset of users in the Horizon View world. They've been struggling with these four in particular for years.
I responded to the partner by offering to layer those apps in real time, although a huge chunk of that time would literally be watching progress bars move along (these installers take a long time).
To layer the apps, provision them each to a desktop, and launch the apps to show they work (well 3 of the 4 as I couldn't find an installer for Navision) took me just over an hour.
An hour of a sales guy's time to layer 3 apps that have been pains for years. Unidesk is some powerful stuff, man.
Here's the video. I'm *not* a professional vlogger so it's pretty bad, ha. But you get the idea - it's easy and powerful.
https://vimeo.com/140055906
~Micah
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