Blogs tagged "application virtualization"

Application virtualization isn't new.  It's been around for many years, and it's wonderfully useful with VDI deployments.  It solves so many IT management problems - single image management of applications, personalized application delivery, reduction of application conflicts (aka, "DLL hell") and more. 

Then why are most companies failing to virtualize even half of their applications...

There are many good reasons to consider virtualizing your desktops – but one of the most compelling is how it will revolutionize desktop management.  Just think of it – by separating the operating system, applications and user persona into individually manageable layers, you can easily install, configure, secure, and patch just one image and deploy to scads of desktops knowing that every ...

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...

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 ...

I blogged yesterday about how impressed I was by Day 1 at Briforum. During Day 2, I got a chance to roam the exhibit floor and talk with more customers. Two desktop virtualization issues came up repeatedly in these conversations:

• Application virtualization limitations. At issue is the difficulty app virt products have in delivering complex applications, such as those with boot drivers...

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...