Ceedo Basics

Workspace Virtualization is a software technology that improves portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by isolating them from the underlying operating system on which they run. A fully-virtualized application can run on any PC without having to be installed first. Ceedo’s technology takes this one step further by encapsulating several virtualized applications at once, and allowing them to interact with each other in a workspace.

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Windows applications usually need to be installed in order to tie specific files and user data to the PC’s Windows file system and registry. Workspace Virtualization lets software run free from the complexities and potential conflicts that occur during installation and runtime by leaving the PC unchanged. This makes it easier for the user to obtain applications, and easier for IT to manage them.

More Information: Ceedo Virtualization Technology Overview, Wikipedia

Unlike desktop virtualization solutions, Ceedo does not require customers to own or manage an operating system for each user, while still providing users with everything they need to do their work. A Ceedo workspace serves as a fully functional alternative to both laptops and desktop virtualization (VDI), but without any of the costs associated with desktop management or the complexities involved in maintaining expensive datacenters.

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Ceedo's workspace virtualization solutions are used wherever there is a business need for managing and delivering more than one application without the need to manage the entire PC. A Ceedo application workspace running on a local PC makes it easy to acquire and run new applications without impacting the existing operating system. If you run the workspace from external encrypted hardware, all the applications become both portable and highly secured.

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In the corporate world, workspace virtualization solutions are used by businesses:

• That need to give their employees, customers and partners a set of managed business applications without providing a company-owned PC or laptop.
• Whose employees need a full PC working environment when they are unable to come to the office.
• That want to allow users to run personal applications on a company-owned PC while avoiding support issues.
• That employ tightly secured IT environments and want to make it easy for their customers and channels to interact with them securely.

In the consumer world, Ceedo has been distributed on millions of portable storage devices and is used every day by people who use it carry their favorite software with them wherever they go.

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Ceedo Enterprise has three components:

• A Windows™ client running in user mode (runs even on a locked down PC where the user has no “admin” status). The Ceedo client acts as a gateway to an entire set of virtualized applications.
• A back-end console for managing deployed application workspaces.
• An online programs directory from which the user can add apps to the application workspace.

Using these three components, complete application workspaces are created, deployed and remotely managed. Application workspaces can have different, pre-defined applications for different groups of users. Options can be configured down to the level of the individual user.

With Ceedo, the user has a personalized rich computing environment that can be run on any PC. Because there is no software installation, it is easily migrated from PC to PC, and can be restored from a backup in minutes.

More Information: Ceedo Enterprise, 2-Page Datasheet

Ceedo SmartPlay is an application delivery layer for packaging an application using the Ceedo Package Creator (CPC) so that with a single click, it can be added by the end-user to a workspace from the online application catalog (such as the Ceedo Programs Directory) or pushed out to the user as an update whenever the Ceedo client is launched.

More Information:Ceedo Package Creator, 2-Page Datasheet

Ceedo has a multitude of branding and customization options for the enterprise and service provider.All components of Ceedo's interface, such as window colors, toolbars and splash screens can be customized and branded to the customer’s specifications.