Abstract: A system for providing virtual desktop images to users of pool members from a pool includes a server subsystem in data communication with a plurality of pool members, said server subsystem being configured to receive, from a user, a request to log into a first pool member from said pool; to retrieve a virtual desktop image for use by said first pool member; to inspect a user policy corresponding to said user; to modify said virtual desktop image consistently with said user policy; and to provide said virtual desktop to said first pool member.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing element access requests in a computing environment having a plurality of applications, by managing versions of elements of a first set of applications as belonging to respective application execution groups of a first group type, each application execution group of the first group type having a unique group identifier; identifying a source of a first element access request as being associated with the first set of applications, the first element access request including a first element identifier; based on the identified source of the first element access request, selecting a version of an element stored in association with the first element identifier from amongst the managed versions of the elements of the first set of applications; and processing the first element access request using data representative of the selected version of the element.