The application layering technology cheat sheet, version 4.0!

It has already been six months (a little over) since my last update, time for version 4.0 – a lot has happened in the meantime, as a result, you’ll see some noticeable changes. Not only from a feature/functionality perspective but from a vendor/company perspective as well. From now on I will be focusing on the big three: Citrix, with App Layering – former Unidesk, VMware App Volumes and Liquidware FlexApps.

From five to three

Which makes sense, when you think about it. I ‘dropped’ Fslogix, not because I do not like them anymore, in contrary, they’re doing some great things, but they are not an application layering company – something I also highlighted when publishing version 3.0 six months ago. I also got rid Citrix App Disks. I’m sure you all know or understand that with the Unidesk acquisition App Disk is bound to be deprecated not too long from now, as are PvD’s. Which leaves these three. Some of the biggest changes are to be found in the Liquidware FlexApp portfolio.

Side note: Citrix App disks are no longer part of the new 7.15 LTSR release, however, in the Current Releases, versions App disks is still present. For example, it will be part of the 7.16 CR release coming up in a couple of months’ time, at least that’s what the CTX E-docs tell us.

Without further ado…

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Bas van Kaam

Field CTO EMEA by day, author by night @ Nerdio

Father of three, EMEA Field CTO @ Nerdio, Author of the book Van de Basis tot aan Meester in de Cloud, Co-author of the book Project Byte-Sized and Yuthor of the book: Inside Citrix – The FlexCast Management Architecture, over 500 blog posts and multiple (ultimate) cheat sheets/e-books. Public speaker, sport enthusiast­­­­­­­­: above-average runner, 3 x burpee-mile finisher and a former semiprofessional snooker player. IT community participant and initiator of the AVD User group Community world wide.