Application Virtulisation

[Face-Man]

Is anybody out there using this ?

 

I'm hoping to have a play this summer as "sandboxing" seems a way to remove some of the headaches in software deployment...

 

Ive had a look at the following

 

http://www.thinstall.com/ - very easy to use and will save user data to locations you specify (i.e. h: drive). Intel Landesk use this product

 

http://www.altiris.com/Products/SoftwareVirtualizationSolution.aspx SVS from Altris, now also includes App Stream

 

http://www.softricity.com/ - MS software, costs as needs Desktop SA to be able to buy it

[Geoff]

I can do this with Citrix. It's called Application Streaming.

 

http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=163987

[srochford]

The Microsoft softgrid doesn't cost a lot of money (less than £1 per CAL on Campus) and looks pretty good.

 

Do you know how much the Citrix Application Streaming costs?

[Geoff]

Well you need Presentation Server Enterprise Edition (I have Platinum) + MS Terminal Server + Citrix CALs + TS CALs.

 

So I expect, it's only worth while if you have a thin client infrastructure anyway.

[ajbritton]

http://www.2x.com/