Assess Your Readiness for the “Post-PC Era”

CloudReady Insight for Desktops is an automated, agent-free SaaS solution that analyzes desktops and applications to identify which users and machines can most easily migrate to Virtual Desktop solutions or cloud-enabled alternatives like Google Chromebooks and Google Apps for Business. A next-generation approach that requires no client-side agents, CloudReady Insight for Desktops is deployable in minutes and delivers deep insights into key “Post-PC Era” decision factors such as total cost of ownership, actual application usage, productivity and performance.

Enterprises face an increasing array of alternatives to the traditional, Windows-based PC including Virtual Desktop solutions like Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VMware View, and cloud-driven approaches like Google Apps for Business. These innovations present significant opportunities to increase efficiency, enhance collaboration capabilities and reduce costs. They also present an increasingly complex range of questions regarding fit and feasibility that every IT leader must answer before transforming infrastructures that have revolved around the Windows PC for a generation. CloudReady Insight for Desktops helps answer these questions.

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Vital Information without Client-Side Agents or Professional Services

Traditional systems management tools typically require on-site appliances and distribution of client-side agents to every desktop. In contrast to these expensive and time-consuming approaches that were developed in the pre-cloud computing era, CloudReady Insight for Desktops is easy-to-use, deployable in minutes and delivers results previously unobtainable through agent-free technologies.

Some of the analytics delivered by CloudReady Insight for Desktops includes:

• Application usage and distribution across every desktop and laptop
• Data-driven cost analytics comparing PCs to Chromebook and Virtual Desktop alternatives
• Automatic identification of web-based equivalent applications for pre-deployment planning
• Segmentation of Web-workers vs. Office-workers