September 2nd, 2010 | 
Author: Service Release Scense 7 available for download
As of today, the service release of Scense 7 (build 1080) is available for download. Customers using Scense 7 are encouraged to download a new ISO from the Scense website and install the updated Scense client and Scense Explorer software by using the Windows Installer packages on the CD. Customers new to Scense or using a version below version 7, will be able to use the setup functionality. More… »
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Tags: App-V, DDE support, Scense 7, service release, unmanaged | 
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During VMWorld Europe, which will be held October 12-14 in Copenhagen, Scense 7.5 will be released.
With the release of Scense 7.5, we speed up the adoption of desktop and application virtualization. Based on suggestions and feedback from our loyal customer and partner base, we developed a release that addresses some of the major hurdles that prevent IT managers from starting a VMware View or ThinApp project. Scense 7.5 will automate the migration to VMware View, will simplify the management of VDI environments and will transform VMWare ThinApp into an enterprise solution. A short description of a number of the features in Scense 7.5 is mentioned below.
FTA (File Type Association) is perhaps the most used feature: just double click the desired document and it will be opened with a suitable application, if this application has been installed on your workspace. ..
Sarah Friar of Goldman Sachs sent me some reports on VDI market developments. The report called desktop virtualization update (June 8 2010) has some good insights on the market developing.
One exhibition that got me thinking was the one (exhibition 6) about the major hurdles that prevent VDI from being adopted by the early majority. Seems to me that most of these hurdles could or should be addressed by User Workspace Management solutions:
Increasingly, IT management is called on to provide support for employees own devices. Recent Gartner research suggests that the average number of workers using their own laptops as their primary work PC grew from 10% in 2009 to 14% by the middle of 2010. This ‘BYOC’ trend is driven by increased productivity, enhanced job satisfaction and cost-efficiency.
Implementing or modifying a Scense object, like a complete Application, Taskset or even just a single Action, needs to be preceded by dedicated testing.
Users assigned to that particular Scense Object can be easily prevented from getting involved within your test activities. How?
If an AppV application has been deployed, you may wonder “what has been deployed exactly?” Because the application is virtualized nothing of that application can be found in the file system and registry, unless…
Scense 7 includes extensive support for 64-bit Operating Systems and applications.
To work with a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit applications and operating systems, Scense 7 provides the administrator with tools to easily maintain a great user experience.
Scense Variables.
Scense 7 adds some new runtime variables and enhances some existing ones to enable seamless operations on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
Evolving business models and increasingly flexible working practices are placing new and complex pressures on IT management. To function effectively, the new generation of users demands access to their personal workspace, wherever and whenever they happen to be. At the same time, concerns with data access and the demands of IT compliancy remain as urgent as ever.
Localization [‚lō•kə•lə′zā•shən] (computer science)
Imposing some physical order upon a set of objects, so that a given object has a greater probability of being in some particular regions of space than in others. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
