Justin Greis, CEO of consulting firm Acceligence, also sees a lot of potential savings for the enterprise.
“Large companies can have thousands of Windows applications, including legacy, custom, industry-specific, and highly specialized applications,” he said. “Many have dependencies on particular versions of Windows, libraries, configurations, or desktop images. Every major desktop refresh, Windows migration, VDI program, cloud move, acquisition, or infrastructure modernization effort can therefore create another application testing and repackaging cycle. The ability to abstract more of the application layer from the environment underneath it can remove a meaningful amount of that friction.”
Noah Kenney, principal consultant at Digital 520, added that the theoretical advantage that Citrix can now offer has great enterprise potential.
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