App Volumes Have Been Added to Horizon Enterprise Bundle

VMware announced on January 25th that App Volumes, formerly Cloud Volumes, has been added to the Horizon View Enterprise Licencing bundle.

VMware App Volumes provides real-time application delivery to end-users and desktops. IT can use App Volumes to instantly deliver applications and data to users without compromising user experience. Infrastructure and management costs are reduced by utilizing managed volumes. Unlike traditional application management solutions, App Volumes allows IT to deliver a desktop with no trade-off between user experience and costs. 

For a quick overview of VMware App Volumes see this video from VMware.

Benefits of using App Volumes: 

• IT can deliver or upgrade application workloads within seconds. Provisioning applications is as easy as simply installing them once. 
• App Volumes also helps to deliver great user experience while driving down storage and management costs. With App Volumes, end users can take advantage of fully customized desktops and enjoy the ability to install their own applications and have them persist across sessions. 
• IT can drive down compute, network, and storage costs by leveraging on-demand layering and the non-persistent architecture that App Volumes helps to enable. App Volumes virtual disks can be placed on any supported VMware vSphere datastore, enabling IT to leverage the most appropriate storage including fast storage with high read IOPS such as VMware Virtual SAN instead of needing to stream application across the network from a CIFS shares
  
• VMware App Volumes can be leveraged by physical desktops.
• For Non-VMware VDI environments you can utilize App Volumes on Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and RDSH.