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Course 7197A - Managing Enterprise Desktops with MDOP
The App-V blog folks posted information about a new training course being offered by Microsoft covering MDOP and enterprise desktop management. This is a 5-day instructor led course. I'm assuming that it is at least based upon (if not directly adapted...
What's Holding Back Application Virtualization?
I posted a rather knee-jerk thought on my personal blog about this, but I wanted to expound a bit here since the audience is a bit more serious (*a-hem*). It seems that everyone is buying up virtualization products and services like plywood at a hurricane...
Will Virtualization Replace Traditional Infrastructure Management?
I've been a moderate user of SMS and systems management and software deployment technologies for almost as long as I've worked in the realm of software development. That comes to around twenty years, so sys mgt comes to about twelve or so I think. Like...
SoftGrid and Thinstall: Tastes Great or Less Filling?
I know this sounds like I'm getting ready to point these two head-to-head, but really, I'm simply trying to contrast the two, not elect one of them king of the application virtualization world. I just finished Brian Tucker's blog post about The Reality...
Playing around with Thinstall
I finally got to get my hands on an eval of Thinstall and see what it does differently than SoftGrid. It's actually pretty nice. For those of you already familiar with Thinstall, ignore the rest of this post, as it will probably seem dumb and juvenile...
VMware acquiring Thinstall: Microsoft Paranoia v2.0
VMware announced today that they are going to acquire Thinstall, a key competitor to Softricity and SoftGrid, which was acquired by Microsoft last year. The result of this seems obvious: Microsoft and VMware will continue to duke it out and we should...
The Next Big Thing?
I've been working with SoftGrid for a few weeks now, after my company sent me out to a week-long training class at Microsoft in Redmond. Very cool stuff. All the buzz this year already. "Application Virtualization". Indeed. After years of suffering through...