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Why application virtualization didn’t turn out to be the ‘nirvana’ a lot of us thought it would be
by Ron Oglesby on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:49 PM 5 comments, 2511 views

History and the promise

I was first introduced to application virtualization in about 2002 or 2003. I remember the first conversation I had on the topic. The “Softricity guy” described what they could do (not how they do it) and explained that he could run multiple versions of MS Access, side by side, executing on the same desktop. I was the first of the group to “explain” to him that it (it...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged application delivery, application packaging, application virtualization
Reader Challenge: What application is impossible to deliver? Stump us!
by Nicole Reineke on Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM 0 comments, 1269 views

A recent meeting revealed an interesting and seemingly common dilemma: how can companies achieve fast delivery of ever-changing custom applications when application virtualization just won’t work. Beyond basic packaging and delivery, it was curious to see the time vs. value equation: how much time was spent on delivering a particular application compared to how many employees used it.

This ...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged application delivery, application packaging, application virtualization
Is Application Virtualization Really the Best Answer for Application Packaging, Management, and Delivery?
by Chris Midgley on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:23 AM 0 comments, 1474 views

Application virtualization is a great example of how desktop management can be radically improved with virtualization technology. It works by isolating a single instance of an installed application into a package and automatically distributing that package to endpoints, often based on provisioning policy. The application is then run inside a protected “bubble” to isolate it from other ...

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Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged application delivery, application packaging, application virtualization
Don't Isolate Us, Apps Have Feelings, Too
by Nicole Reineke on Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:53 AM 0 comments, 1320 views

In the spirit of the holiday season I would like to take the opportunity to discuss something very serious: local conflict - that terrible war we have on our desktops with inter-application relations. Those installation .EXEs constantly battling for registry settings and .DLLs, and programs running on incompatible versions of the JVM.

Sure, some of us use application virtualization to isolate the...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged application delivery, application isolation, application virtualization
Survey Says: Managing Lots of Apps? You're Probably in Financial Services
by Nicole Reineke on Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:06 AM 0 comments, 1055 views

Another report from our desktop administrator survey: application delivery, application patching, and application upgrading are some of the biggest time sinks for desktop administrators. Most administrators from enterprises with greater than 5,000 employees are managing about 150 distinct applications.  This can be challenging enough, especially when all but a handful of common apps are assigned...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged application delivery, application packaging, application virtualization