Application Virtualization

Application Virtualization covers application layering and application delivery approaches like streaming application, and local application virtualization.

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    Microsoft to Bring the Cloud to the Datacenter with Server App-V

    July 5, 2010
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    Microsoft to Bring the Cloud to the Datacenter with Server App-V

    Microsoft is bringing its strongest assets – the installed base of its key products in the enterprise, and its library of commercial and custom built applications (and their associated developer communities) along with compelling new technologies like Server App-V to the virtualization and cloud fight. Leveraging Azure and App-V along with these existing enterprise assets…

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    Announcement: Virtual Thoughts Podcast the rebirth

    June 29, 2010
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    Virtual Thoughts Podcast the Rebirth, Join us Tuesday 29th June @ 7:00pm (BST), 2:00pm (EST), 11:00am (PST)

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    VMware Spring + Google: Dramatic PaaS Progress and New SMT Concerns

    May 21, 2010
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    Java based applications can now be moved between not only a SpringSource TC-Server Java platform on VMware vSphere, but also between the same platform on VMForce, and now Google AppEngine. This level of support from VMware, Salesforce.com, and now Google is starting to make SpringSource look like the early leading technology for PaaS Clouds. This…

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    Virtualize Java without an Operating System

    May 20, 2010
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    Virtualize Java without an Operating System

    When we put a .NET application on Windows on Hyper-V (or a Java application on Linux on ESXi) we are actually virtualizing twice. Can we virtualize only once, by putting the CLR or the JVM directly on the VM Host? In this action of course we remove the operating system. Oracle is taking the lead…

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    VMware – The Applications Platform Company

    May 7, 2010
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    VMware will offer enterprises a very inexpensive Java run time platform that is tuned to virtualization, that facilitates very rapid deployment of Java applications into a virtualized environment, and that offers applications portability between VMware TC-Server run time environments and Java PAAS clouds like VMforce. This may well prove to be an irresistible combination to…

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    A Rising Tide Lifts all Virtual Boats

    April 26, 2010
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    VMware, Citrix, EMC, NetApp and Intel have all reported strong earnings for Q1/2009. This suggests that virtualization is helping the technology sector lead the economy out of the recession. This trend should continue as economies improve worldwide and these vendors can start to chalk up global growth.

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    How will you pay for your virtualised applications?

    April 22, 2010
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    Does an evaluation for a virtualisation project need to be only an exercise in understanding if X hosts will on Y servers? Will you be able to to virtualize every service you deliver? Are new applications required? What are your existing service-levels and requirements across your application portfolio? In most enterprises today, IT is a…

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    Is a Partnership between VMware and Citrix Possible – or even Desirable?

    February 15, 2010
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    Let’s start this analysis with a basic question. Is there any rational reason for VMware and Citrix to make peace with each other, and develop the desktop virtualization market in concert with one another instead of in competition with each other? In other words if Citrix were to add its value to the core pieces…

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    SMBs – Desktops in the Cloud, or Symantec Endpoint Virtualization?

    February 2, 2010
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    Whilst new SMBs may be dabbling with online application suites, the bulk of the established SMB workload, however, is done in desktop applications, typically Microsoft Office, running in various flavours of Windows with a Windows Server. This is definitely not in the cloud, and there are lots of very good reasons why it won’t be,…

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