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| December 18, 2012 09:07 AM EST |
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AppSense, the people-centric computing company, today announced that Jon
Rolls has joined the company as chief technology officer (CTO) of
Enterprise. Working closely with AppSense Chief Development Officer
(CDO), Keith Turnbull, Rolls will be responsible for overseeing the
vision of the company’s User Virtualization Platform. In this new role,
Rolls rounds out the AppSense Office of the CTO to provide a seasoned
bench of technologists that will help meet the needs of enterprises and
their employees in response to the rapid growth of BYOD and the mobile
workforce.
“As enterprises respond to the combined pressures of BYOD and
consumerization, the focus on user virtualization and shift to
people-centric computing will drive a significant part of the company’s
future growth,” said Darron Antill, CEO of AppSense. “I am thrilled to
have Jon join our team to continue to lead our virtualization and
desktop technologies, as well as complete the office of the CTO.”
Rolls brings more than 15 years of software industry and Windows
management experience, including product management roles with Citrix,
ScriptLogic, and virtualization and web acceleration startups. Prior to
joining AppSense, Rolls served as vice president of product management
for Quest’s User Workspace Management group, which was acquired by Dell
earlier this year.
A recent Forrester report identifies user virtualization as the
independent management of a user’s experience, including user settings
across their data, applications, and the OS. According to this same
report, user virtualization solutions are poised to experience moderate
success over the next one to three years as I&O professionals look to
provision personalized, consistent, and rich user experiences across a
range of application and desktop delivery architectures and devices. The
same report found that AppSense solutions lead the way in understanding
the context, such as identity, location, device, and time, which
together with content and security make up the user’s workspace.
“Coming to AppSense is an honor and I’m delighted to expand the strategy
of our market-leading enterprise products and services,” said Jon Rolls,
CTO for Enterprise at AppSense. “It’s an exciting time to be part of
such a fast growing company as we help enterprises virtualize the user
experience, allowing them to embrace the shifts in IT strategy brought
about consumerization and BYOD.”
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About AppSense
AppSense, the people-centric computing company, is a leading global
software provider of user virtualization solutions that transform
organizations into productive mobile workforces securely governed by IT.
AppSense works with customers to reduce IT complexity and enable
enterprise consumerization with independent management of the user
experience across enterprise desktops and all mobile devices. User
virtualization improves the deployment, management and migration of
multi-platform desktop and mobile environments. The company is
headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices around the world. For
more information visit www.appsense.com.
