User Installed Applications

Provide Users with Sandboxed Elevated Privileges on Locked Down Machines

Ceedo Desktop allows IT Administors to provide their users with the ability to install their own applications, even when working under limited accounts on locked down machines, without affecting the underlying OS

Resolve the IT – end-user clash of needs: get all the benefits of locked down desktops and the productivity of user freedom

The clash between end-user productivity and IT needs and regulation reaches a boiling point when dealing with user-installed applications. On the one hand, locking down the desktops significantly reduces management overhead and time, and mitigates security risks and OS vulnerabilities to minimum. Furthermore, in VDI deployments, user-installed applications play a significant role in image sprawl, as they lead to a one-to-one deployment architecture where users have an entire VM image each, straining the datacenter's hardware and storage facilities, and further complicates desktop management.

With Ceedo Desktop, all these problems are a thing of a past with the introduction of the ground breaking Application-Level Layering which incorporates Ceedo's proprietary Workspace Virtualization technology in addition to an integration agent which binds all the different components at runtime for a seamless computing experience.

Ceedo Desktop Layers and Benefits

 

 
Lower Desktop TCO and Heighten Security

Deploy Independent and Sandboxed User-Installed Applications Layers Onto Any OS.

Ceedo Desaktop LayersWhile mostly debated in VDI deployments due to image sprawl and storage issues, allowing users to run with admin privileges and install their own applications comes at a price. Users can infect their machine with malware, cause system failures and conflicts, and burden the IT department.

Ceedo Desktop allows the IT Administrator to provide his users with limited accounts, while at the same time allowing them to freely install their own applications into a separate sandboxed environment which is stored separately from the host OS's files.

Once a user installs his applications, Ceedo's Virtual Runtime Environment intercepts all the data that is written into the OS File System and Registry and diverts it into a secure sandboxed environment equipped with its own virtual File System, Registry and other OS-like resources which have internal elevated privileges, but that never effects the underlying OS.

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Action Items

  • Lock Down OS Without Locking Down Users
    Deploy applications to locked down machines without installing them and allow users to install their own application on limited accounts.

     

  • Heighten Security and Lower TCO
    Locking down desktops with Ceedo will save over $1,200 per machine on annual desktop TCO and reduce 92% of OS vulnerabilities.

     

  • Reduce Image Sprawl
    Use a single image for all your PCs and gradually flavor them with sandboxed runtime environment layers harboring applications installed by users and deployed by IT.
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