Cameyo by Google Brings Virtual App Delivery to Chrome, ChromeOS Enterprise

Google announced today that its Cameyo Virtual App Delivery service is now available to enterprise customers with Chrome, ChromeOS, and ChromeOS Flex.

“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,” Google product manager Rob Beard writes. “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.”

Google has been working to solve the app gap on ChromeOS for years. It partnered with Parallels to bring a version of Parallels Desktop to ChromeOS for Enterprise back in 2020. But after partnering with Cameyo in 2023 for its Virtual App Delivery service in 2023, Google decided to acquire the company, bringing that team and technology in-house.

Google says that Cameyo Virtual App Delivery lets enterprise stream legacy Windows and Linux apps in the Chrome web browser and deliver them as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) that run alongside native ChromeOS and Android apps on the desktop. For the user, this experience is seamless either way, and enterprises can easily manage app distribution and move their workforces to the simpler and more secure ChromeOS, including ChromeOS Flex, a version of the system that can be installed on any PC.

“Google’s enterprise stack 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,” Beard adds. “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.”

Virtual App Delivery also opens up the possibility of bringing Gemini AI capabilities to legacy apps, thanks to the integration of Gemini in Chrome Enterprise.

“Gemini can be used to quickly summarize long reports or documents, grab key information from a video or brainstorm ideas for a new project,” Google notes. “Gemini in Chrome can understand the context of a user’s tabs, and recall recent tabs they had open. By combining Gemini in Chrome with an app virtualized by Cameyo, organizations can bring the helpfulness of AI to legacy apps on the web.”

You can learn more about Cameyo by Google and Virtual App Delivery on the Cameyo By Google website.