Publish individual applications without delivering full desktops
Not every user needs a full desktop. Sometimes they need one application — an ERP client, a design tool, a legacy line-of-business app. Virtual Apps publishes individual applications from Tophan that appear as local windows on the user’s own device. No full desktop session, no VDI overhead, just the app.
An administrator selects an application from an installed desktop image and publishes it. Tophan creates a lightweight container around that application — just enough OS to run it, nothing more. When a user launches the published app, Tophan spins up the container, streams the application window to the user’s device, and tears it down when they close it.
From the user’s perspective, the app appears as a normal window on their local desktop. They can alt-tab between local and virtual apps, copy and paste between them, and drag files in. The app runs on Tophan’s infrastructure using server-side CPU, RAM, and GPU — the client device just displays pixels.
Each published app runs in its own isolated layer. A crash in one app doesn’t affect others. Data is sandboxed per user and per app. Administrators control which users can access which apps, and usage is tracked for license management.
This model is ideal for expensive or resource-intensive applications. Instead of installing a CAD application on 50 engineering laptops, publish it once and let users access it on demand. The license is consumed only while the app is running, not while it’s installed and idle.