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Dynamically deliver and manage applications across your enterprise and beyond Designed for Users. Built for IT The InstallFree Bridge is a clientless and serverless platform that enables enterprises to centrally deliver and manage virtual applications, add-ons and patches to end-users with complete transparency based on the customer’s existing IT infrastructure. IFV Applications provide end-users with a natural user experience and conventional application behavior via local processing, offline availability, application interconnectivity and complete shell integration into the host environment. The InstallFree Bridge does not require an agent to be installed, and users can access their own complete set of applications from any host computer or platform without the need to install any software or alter the host PC in anyway. Users have complete autonomy on locked-down computers for productivity while enabling IT to realize huge cost savings through improved TCO of managing the desktop. Experience Flexibility Beyond the Constraints of Traditional Computing IFV Applications are never installed, never conflict, and eliminate costly tasks associated with testing, delivering and managing applications. End-users can access their IFV applications on any Windows XP or Vista computer, Terminal Server and Citrix XenApp at any time, in any location without limitations. True roaming of desktops is achievable as applications can be accessed on any PC and run without any installation required. Best of all, IT is aligned to support the operations of business with the flexibility the times demand. 9 Centrally distribute applications across your enterprise 9 Leverage existing IT infrastructure investment 9 No upfront investment, dedicated server or “clean PC” 9 Simplify application delivery and management tasks 9 Complete user autonomy on locked-down PCs 9 Ubiquitous computing and roaming profiles Lock-down PCs without Affecting User Productivity Using the InstallFree Bridge helps solve once and for all the age-old problem of security restrictions versus user autonomy, in which granting users with limited accounts drastically drives down IT expenses but diminishes the user experience and harms productivity. IFV Applications are packaged with the entire set of resources required to function and grant users with administrator like privileges from within their applications, even when working on locked-down PCs. This can reduce corporate desktop TCO by up to 40% without affecting the end-user's experience and with no need in upfront investment or dedicated servers. Increase Productivity of Your Employees With the InstallFree Bridge, end-users can access their entire set of IFV Applications, add-on and updates including their personalized settings, from any computer without limitations. Our solution does not require any software to be installed in the host environment enabling full functionality and complete end-user autonomy across all environments including non-dedicated, public and locked-down computers, providing unprecedented flexibility and mobility across the enterprise and beyond. Simplify Application Delivery and Management Tasks The InstallFree Bridge solution suite separately packages applications, add-ons and updates into stateless, sandboxed and modular desktop elements. IFV applications are centrally managed and delivered for local processing on any XP or Vista based PC as well as server-based solutions such as Citrix XenApp, Windows Terminal Server and Windows-based Virtual Machines. IT departments can easily encapsulate and deliver applications, updates and add-ons across different computing platforms with no re-packaging overhead, image sprawl or multi-platform regression testing. Secure the Desktop IFV Applications operate in a secure contained environment which does not require any installed software or client. They have read only access to the host keeping it in its "out-of-the-box" pristine shape and preventing applications from cross contamination. Yet, these applications can fully interact with other IFV applications, traditionally-installed applications and the host PC itself – without compromising privacy and security. This enables IT departments to secure the PC without limiting the end-user experience. © 2009 InstallFree Inc. All Rights Reserved. 60 Long Ridge Road, Suite 201, Stamford, CT 06902 | (203) 276-1460 | www.installfree.com

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Dynamically deliver and manage applications across your enterprise and beyond

Designed for Users. Built for IT

• The InstallFree Bridge is a clientless and serverless platform thatenables enterprises to centrally deliver and manage virtualapplications, add-ons and patches to end-users with completetransparency based on the customer’s existing IT infrastructure.

• IFV Applications provide end-users with a natural user experienceand conventional application behavior via local processing, offlineavailability, application interconnectivity and complete shellintegration into the host environment.

• The InstallFree Bridge does not require an agent to be installed,and users can access their own complete set of applications fromany host computer or platform without the need to install anysoftware or alter the host PC in anyway.

• Users have complete autonomy on locked-down computers forproductivity while enabling IT to realize huge cost savings throughimproved TCO of managing the desktop.

Experience Flexibility Beyond the Constraints of Traditional Computing

IFV Applications are never installed, never conflict, and eliminatecostly tasks associated with testing, delivering and managingapplications. • End-users can access their IFV applications on any Windows XP or

Vista computer, Terminal Server and Citrix XenApp at any time, inany location without limitations.

• True roaming of desktops is achievable as applications can beaccessed on any PC and run without any installation required.

• Best of all, IT is aligned to support the operations of business withthe flexibility the times demand.

Centrally distribute applications across your enterprise

Leverage existing IT infrastructure investment

No upfront investment, dedicated server or “clean PC”

Simplify application delivery and management tasks

Complete user autonomy on locked-down PCs

Ubiquitous computing and roaming profiles

Lock-down PCs without Affecting User Productivity Using the InstallFree Bridge helps solve once and for all the age-oldproblem of security restrictions versus user autonomy, in whichgranting users with limited accounts drastically drives down ITexpenses but diminishes the user experience and harmsproductivity. IFV Applications are packaged with the entire set ofresources required to function and grant users with administratorlike privileges from within their applications, even when working onlocked-down PCs. This can reduce corporate desktop TCO by up to40% without affecting the end-user's experience and with no needin upfront investment or dedicated servers. Increase Productivity of Your Employees With the InstallFree Bridge, end-users can access their entire set ofIFV Applications, add-on and updates including their personalizedsettings, from any computer without limitations. Our solution doesnot require any software to be installed in the host environmentenabling full functionality and complete end-user autonomy acrossall environments including non-dedicated, public and locked-downcomputers, providing unprecedented flexibility and mobility acrossthe enterprise and beyond.

Simplify Application Delivery and Management Tasks The InstallFree Bridge solution suite separately packagesapplications, add-ons and updates into stateless, sandboxed andmodular desktop elements. IFV applications are centrally managedand delivered for local processing on any XP or Vista based PC aswell as server-based solutions such as Citrix XenApp, WindowsTerminal Server and Windows-based Virtual Machines. ITdepartments can easily encapsulate and deliver applications,updates and add-ons across different computing platforms with nore-packaging overhead, image sprawl or multi-platform regressiontesting. Secure the Desktop IFV Applications operate in a secure contained environment whichdoes not require any installed software or client. They have readonly access to the host keeping it in its "out-of-the-box" pristineshape and preventing applications from cross contamination. Yet,these applications can fully interact with other IFV applications,traditionally-installed applications and the host PC itself – withoutcompromising privacy and security. This enables IT departments tosecure the PC without limiting the end-user experience.

© 2009 InstallFree Inc. All Rights Reserved. 60 Long Ridge Road, Suite 201, Stamford, CT 06902 | (203) 276-1460 | www.installfree.com

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InstallFree Bridge Data Sheet

Modular Desktop Elements IFV Applications are modular, self-contained and packaged desktopelements such as applications, add-ons and updates that werevirtualized using InstallFree's products. They possess the unique ability to dynamically bind to each other with no special pre-configuration. Through the InstallFree Bridge, IT departments can introduce a modular design to corporate application delivery schemes, providingunprecedented ease of management when decoupled desktopelements can be separately added, removed, replaced and repaired,with no need to repackage, regression-test or reconfigure them in anyway. Dynamic Binding InstallFree’s dynamic binding enables decoupled desktop elementsto dynamically bind with each other and the host PC environmentduring runtime.

Seamless Communication IFV applications are designed with a binding layer that allowsthem to communicate freely with other IFV applications in thesame environment without being virtualized in the same IFVpackage or specially configured. This Dynamic Bindingcommunication allows not only the free flow of data betweentwo separately packaged virtual applications but also allowsthem to work with each other naturally as if they were bothinstalled on the same machine, providing for instance MS OfficeWord the ability to insert an Excel table even if the MS Excel isvirtualized in a separate package. Seamless Convergence Dynamic Binding also allows separately packaged componentsof an application (add-ons, updates, etc.) to bind and convergeat runtime on the host PC allowing for on-the fly patching, as well as enabling the deployment of multi-flavored applicationsacross the organization using a single application package (i.e.MS Office Excel with MSN Money for the finance department,Random Generator for R&D department, etc.) It is this samefeature which allows IFV Applications to converge with theuser’s personal stateful UserData file. Seamless Integration The InstallFree Bridge provides complete and naturalintegration into the host environment including icons and fileassociations, right-click menu options, shortcuts on the desktopand in the start menu, with no special configuration needed.This utilizes the applications' natural settings, eliminating theneed to meticulously define specific icons, file extension andgeneral shell integration prior to deployment.

Clientless InstallFree leverages its unique IFV technology to acceleratedeployment and enable end-users to compute anywhere with nolimitations. The InstallFree Bridge virtual agent allows users to workon non-dedicated PCs without depending on installed clients orunlocked PCs, turning any computer into a generic computing devicein which end-users can access their personalized applications fromany Windows-based platform. Serverless The InstallFree Bridge does not require a dedicated back-endinfrastructure and can be deployed based on the organization'sexisting environment. One of the key factors that restrainorganizations from deploying new technologies is the significantupfront investment in hardware and manpower needed to setup,install and configure new products. InstallFree is focused on providing solutions that take advantage ofcurrent systems and can be deployed in a very short time. Byimporting the domain-schema from Active Directory into a virtualmanagement console that does not require any installation, andusing a file or HTTP server to store IFV Application packages anduser-specific UserData files, the time to use of virtual applications isgreatly reduced. PowerGuest PowerGuest prevents virtual applications from writing anyinformation to the host OS. This allows IFV Applications to workunder limited/guest account privileges (Locked-down machines)while providing virtual admin-like privileges from within the virtualapplication. The PowerGuest layer also heightens security measuresas it denies the IFV application ability to directly write data into thesystem files of other IFV Applications and non-virtual applications,virtually eliminating the risk of compromised applications infectingthe host OS and other applications. Personalized Applications The UserData file is an external file that contains the personalizationand customization data that an application uses. It is a stateful filethat retains encrypted user specific information and dynamicallybinds with the stateless IFV Application's package during runtime,creating the end-user's own application, with their personal settingsand properties. This allows for the efficient 1-to-many architecturewhich allows one application package to be used for multiple end-users, in multiple environments while maintaining and saving alltheir data separately for access in any location at any time. Application Streaming InstallFree offers a clientless, block-level and user-mode basedstreaming that streams applications with accordance to usage, as itstreams only the data needed for the specific modules and functionsused by the end-user.

InstallFree provides application virtualization software used by enterprises to lower the cost and complexity of delivering and managingapplications while increasing portability and compatibility of applications. InstallFree stands alone in offering an approach that requires noinfrastructure changes to realize these benefits. Designed for Users. Built for IT. To learn how InstallFree can address your IT and Corporate challenges of the reducing cost and complexity of delivering and managingapplications, visit us at www.installfree.com or call (203) 276-1460.

© 2009 InstallFree Inc. All Rights Reserved. 60 Long Ridge Road, Suite 201, Stamford, CT 06902 | (203) 276-1460 | www.installfree.com