Application Virtualization: The Next Frontier

Wednesday, 25 July 2007 by Michel Roth

Omer Qureshi has written an article on Microsoft SoftGrid technologies helping you to cut costs while increasing operational agility, deliv�ering superior service, and maintaining high customer satisfaction:

"Application virtualization with Microsoft SoftGrid technologies can help with all of these goals. By converting applications into virtual services that are managed and hosted centrally but run on demand locally, application virtualization reduces the complexity and IT labor involved in deploying, updating, and managing applications. In addition, because the virtualized applications run in their own environment on client machines, this can considerably reduce the application footprint on the operating system thus reducing application & operating system conflicts. The segregation and elimination of applications-OS conflicts can be instrumental not only for reducing IT operating expenditures but also for reducing the need for regression testing or for server silos."

Read the article and download the whitepaper here.