Application-Delivery Options In VMware Horizon 6

Application delivery is important because everybody uses applications—from the CEO of an international enterprise to the pizza deliverer. Applications are everywhere. An ever-increasing variety of applications and online services keep the wheels of business turning. And when the applications do not work well, neither does the business. Unfortunately, if the performance of a key application degrades, often the end user notices before IT does. That can translate to loss of revenue, loss of users, or loss of funding.

Consequently, IT no longer focuses on desktops alone when managing user activities. Especially when users work with mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, the applications on the devices are often even more central to the business than desktops. IT administrators increasingly consider software application delivery a top priority.

A multitude of application-delivery options have been developed in response to this growing need, as well as new terms to talk about those options. For the purposes of this paper, software application delivery—also called app delivery—refers to any method used by IT administrators to make applications available to their end users. For this discussion, app delivery includes methods such as streaming, where the application is not actually placed on the endpoint device at all.