GCP – A flexible path to modern end-user computing with Cameyo by Google
While 90% of IT leaders indicate that the future of their end user computing (EUC) strategy is web-based, those same leaders admit that 50% of the applications their organizations rely on today are still legacy client-based apps.1 Similarly, IT leaders note that enabling end users to take advantage of AI on the endpoint is their top priority in the next 12 months. Clearly, something needs to bridge the gap between today’s reality and tomorrow’s strategy.
Announcing Cameyo by Google: Virtual app delivery for the modern tech stack
To provide today’s organizations with a more modern approach to virtualization, we are thrilled to launch Cameyo by Google, bringing a best-in-class Virtual App Delivery (VAD) solution into the Google enterprise family of products.
Cameyo is not VDI. It is a modern alternative designed specifically to solve the legacy app gap without the overhead of traditional virtual desktops. Instead of streaming a full, resource-heavy desktop, Cameyo’s Virtual App Delivery (VAD) technology delivers only the applications users need, securely to any device.
With Cameyo, those legacy Windows or Linux apps can either be streamed in the browser or delivered as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to give users the feel of using a native app in its own window. This allows users to run critical legacy applications — everything from specialized ERP clients, Windows-based design programs like AutoCAD, the desktop version of Excel, and everything in between — and access them alongside their other modern web apps in the browser, or access them side-by-side with the other apps in their system tray as PWAs. For the user, the experience is seamless and free from the context-switching of managing a separate virtual desktop environment. For IT, the complexity is eliminated.
“The beauty of Cameyo is its simplicity. It lets users access applications on any device with security built in, allowing us to reach any end user, on any device, without it ever touching our corporate systems or the complexity or overhead — no VPNs or firewall configurations needed,” said Phil Paterson, Head of Cloud & Infrastructure, PTSG. He added, “VPNS were taking up to 15 minutes to log in, but with Cameyo access is instant, saving users upwards of 30 minutes every day.”
Completing the Google Enterprise stack
Today’s enterprises have been increasingly turning to Google for a modern, flexible, and secure enterprise tech stack that was built for the web-based future of work, not modified for it. And Cameyo by Google is a critical unlock mechanism that bridges the gap between those organizations’ legacy investments and this modern stack.
Google’s enterprise tech stack provides organizations with a flexible, modular path to modernization. Unlike all-or-nothing enterprise ecosystems, Google’s enterprise stack doesn’t force you to abandon existing investments for the sake of modernization. Instead, it gives you the freedom to modernize individual layers of your stack at your own pace, as it makes sense for your business — all while maintaining access to your existing technology investments. And Google’s flexible enterprise stack is built for interoperability with a broad ecosystem of modern technologies built for the web, giving you freedom along your modernization journey.
A secure browsing first: Cameyo + Chrome Enterprise
Speaking of enabling organizations to modernize at their own rate, we’ve seen a distinct pattern popping up throughout our conversations with enterprises today. And that pattern is the interest in migrating to Secure Enterprise Browsers (SEBs) to provide a more secure, manageable place for people to do their best work.
And while the market for SEBs is growing rapidly, most enterprise browser solutions share a fundamental blind spot: they are only built to secure web-based SaaS applications. They have no direct answer for the 50% of client-based applications that run entirely outside the browser.1
This is where the combination of Cameyo by Google and Chrome Enterprise Premium provides a unique solution. This combination is the only solution on the market that delivers and secures both modern web apps and legacy client-based apps within a single, unified browser experience.
Here’s how it works:
- Chrome Enterprise Premium serves as the secure entry point, providing advanced threat protection, URL filtering, and granular Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls – like preventing copy/paste or printing – for all sensitive data and web activity.
- Cameyo takes your legacy client apps (like your ERP, an internal accounting program, SAP client, etc.) and publishes it within that managed Chrome Enterprise browser.
- This unifies the digital workspace. Those legacy applications, which previously lived on a desktop, now run under the single security context of the secure browser. This allows Chrome Enterprise Premium’s advanced security and DLP controls to govern applications they previously couldn’t see, providing a comprehensive security posture across all of your organization’s apps, not just the web-based apps.
- Bringing AI to legacy apps. The combination of Cameyo and Chrome Enterprise not only brings all your apps into a secure enterprise browser, but thanks to Gemini in Chrome, all of your legacy apps now have the power of AI layered on top.
Unlocking adoption of a more secure, web-based OS and more collaborative, web-first productivity
Moving all of your apps to the web with Cameyo doesn’t just provide a more unified user experience. It can also provide a significantly better, more flexible, and more secure experience for IT. Compared to traditional virtualization technologies that take weeks or months to deploy, IT can publish their first apps to users within hours, and be fully deployed in days. All while taking advantage of Cameyo’s embedded Zero Trust security model for ultra-secure app delivery.
And that added simplicity, flexibility, and security opens up other opportunities for IT, too.
For organizations that have been looking for a more secure alternative to Windows in the wake of years of security incidents, outages, and forced upgrades to the next Windows version, Cameyo now makes it possible for IT to migrate to ChromeOS — including the use of ChromeOS Flex to convert existing PCs to ChromeOS — while maintaining access to all of their Windows apps.
For years, the primary blocker for deeper enterprise adoption of ChromeOS has always been the “app gap” — the persistent need to access a few remaining Windows applications within an organization. Cameyo eliminates this blocker entirely, enabling organizations to confidently migrate their entire fleet to ChromeOS, the only operating system with zero reported ransomware attacks, ever.
Similarly, Cameyo allows organizations to fully embrace Google Workspace while retaining access to essential client apps that previously kept them tethered to Microsoft™, such as legacy Excel versions with complex macros or specific ERP clients. Now, teams can move to a more modern, collaborative productivity suite that was built for the web, and they can still access any specialized Windows apps that their workflows still depend on.
Your flexible path to modernization starts now
For too long, legacy applications have hindered organizations’ modernization efforts. But the age of tolerating complex, costly virtualization solutions just to keep legacy apps alive is coming to an end.
Cameyo by Google, like the rest of the Google enterprise stack, was built in the cloud specifically to enable the web-based future of work. And like the rest of Google’s enterprise offerings, Cameyo gives you a flexible path forward that enables you to build a modern, secure, and productive enterprise computing stack at the pace that works for you.
So, together — let’s get to work.
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