LANDesk Partners with Spoon for Application Virtualization

Partnership provides LANDesk customers with easy migration, enhanced virtualization features, new BYOD capabilities

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spoon, a leading developer of application and desktop virtualization technology, today announced a partnership with LANDesk Software, a global leader in endpoint, systems lifecycle, and IT service management. This partnership will integrate Spoon’s application virtualization capabilities with LANDesk Management Suite, providing IT organizations the ability to utilize the robust agent infrastructure of LANDesk to deploy virtualized application packages to endpoints.

“The combination of Spoon virtualization with the LANDesk platform will dramatically reduce the time, cost, and risk associated with application deployment and operating system rollouts”

“The partnership with Spoon signifies LANDesk’s commitment to application virtualization and aligns very well with our core strategy,” said Steve Workman, VP of Product Management at LANDesk. “Spoon will provide our customers with the tools and infrastructure required to deliver an efficient virtualized application environment. We are excited to add Spoon to our ecosystem of great software and technology partners.”

The partnership provides for a smooth transition for existing LANDesk Application Virtualization customers, including a single-click migration tool and the option to crossgrade to the Spoon solution at their current maintenance renewal cost.

“The combination of Spoon virtualization with the LANDesk platform will dramatically reduce the time, cost, and risk associated with application deployment and operating system rollouts,” said Kenji Obata, CEO of Spoon. “In addition to introducing support for the latest applications and platforms, Spoon will enable emerging BYOD and web-based delivery models for LANDesk customers.”

About LANDesk Software

LANDesk Software is the industry’s leading provider of IT end-user management, including integrated systems and asset management, endpoint security, virtualization management, end-to-end mobility, and user-oriented IT service management solutions. LANDesk provides an adaptive IT delivery model to help IT organizations increase end-user productivity. LANDesk is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with offices located in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, and can be found at www.landesk.com.

About Spoon.net

Spoon.net lets users access desktop applications with no installs, instantly, securely, anywhere. Spoon’s unique virtualization technology runs applications in isolated “sandboxes,” eliminating installs, conflicts, and modifications to the host desktop. Spoon is available as a web-based service, on-premise server, and standalone packaging tool, as well as through select integration partners. For more information, please visit spoon.net.