The App Volumes solution came from an acquisition that VMware made in August 2014, when they acquired a startup company called CloudVolumes. The original CloudVolumes solution delivered a real-time application delivery engine for virtual and physical desktop environments.
In December 2014, CloudVolumes was rebranded and became what we now know as App Volumes, and was offered as part of the Horizon Enterprise edition.
So, what does App Volumes give you? At a high-level, App Volumes provides real-time application delivery and life cycle management solution that is used to deliver applications that you capture using the App Volumes provisioning process. The captured applications are then layered into the OS of your virtual and physical desktops. In a nutshell, App Volumes is an application layering solution.
But how is this different to the way a virtual desktop...