AppSense, the leading provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise, will be a featured speaker at the 2008 SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com) being held at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, November 19 – 21, 2008. AppSense grew 50 percent in the U.S. and 30 percent in its worldwide revenue during its last fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, continuing its trend of 30 percent growth each year since 2005.

AppSense will discuss “User environment management – the third layer of the desktop” on Thursday, November 20, 2008, at 1:45 pm.  The Sys-Con conference attracts thousands of attendees who sell, support and purchase virtualized solutions for their businesses or who closely track the virtualization industry.  Desktop virtualization is a technology approach many analysts predict will be the pervasive form of computing in 2010 due to its cost savings and increased flexibility.

“Successful virtual desktop rollouts can only be realized if user acceptance is equivalent to that of a local PC,” said Jon Wallace, Senior Technical Consultant for AppSense US, who is speaking at the SYS-CON event.  “The key to enabling this is ensuring that standardized virtual desktops are ‘personalized’ on demand so that virtual desktops as can rolled out quickly and transparently, and managed easily.”

AppSense’s user environment management solution enables users to have the same look and feel, shortcuts and other settings on a virtual desktop that they had on their physical PC, while ensuring they adhere to company policies, such as accessing pre-determined printers, applications, networks, drivers and folders.  This allows companies to gain the benefits of desktop standardization and automation, including savings in hardware, storage and management oversight, with no impact on a user’s experience.

“Events such as SYS-CON’s International Virtualization Conference provide an essential means for communicating the enabling role of personalization in desktop virtualization,” commented Pete Rawlinson, VP Marketing for AppSense.  “As a gold sponsor at this event, we represent the critical ‘human element’ of the emerging virtual desktop model.”

AppSense recently released a major new version of its user environment management solution and this will be showcased at the SYS-CON event in AppSense’s booth # 13.  For more information about user environment management, visit www.appsense.com and for more information about SYS-CON’s International Virtualization Conference, visit http://www.virtualizationconference.com.