I read an article on Xendesktop Feature Pack 2 today. This Feature pack will deliver the production release of XenClient and another feature called XenVault.
Ive tried to find more detail on what XenVault actually is but without much luck.
It looks like it may have been blogged about in the past as a add-in called Traffic Cop
Heres what it sounds like to me.
A virtual drive mapping on a client device that you only allow corporate delivered applications to access. (eg. XenApp, APP-V, XenDesktop etc..) So if you browsed it from the clients local explorer you would not gain access, but through an APP-V version of Word you would see it and could grab your documents. I dont see any advantage to this over having a Encrypted USB stick or hard drive, Except that the facility is an add-on to the citrix receiver software so it can be easily deployed and managed. (if you can ever manage to properly manage laptops out in the wild)
I also cant understand how it secure. If a thief can gain access to logon to the laptop they will surely be able to run local offline apps and gain access to the data area. If the applications are all in the datacentre, then whats the point of the data being held on the end client anyway..
I also read that part of this technology may start to be built into intel hardware to encryt the client side data.
anyone have any answers ?
Xendesktop FP2 Blog Entry
http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/08/24/Stodgy+IT%2C+client+virtualization+and+XenDesktop+Feature+Pack+2
Traffic Cop Blog Entry
https://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/08/09/Encrypted+data+plug-in+-+Traffic+Cop
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