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Softricity Deepens App Virtualization With Microsoft's Management System

Thursday, 27 April 2006 by Michel Roth

At Microsoft's Management Summit 2006, Softricity rolled out Softricity Desktop 4.0 and SoftGrid 4.0. Version 4.0 offers tight integration with Microsoft Systems Management Server, rapid virtualization via its new Sequencer technology, more scalable centralized management and certification for VMware and Microsoft virtual machines.

Softricity's first SoftGrid for Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 add-on was released in February. It allows solution providers to rapidly virtualize applications and deploy them from within SMS without having to deploy VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server. Solution providers said the product provides an application virtualization solution that delivers improved Windows desktop management and security out of the box.

SoftGrid 4.0 turns locally installed Windows applications into virtual network services that can be centrally managed and deployed on demand without any changes to the desktop, according to Softricity. SoftGrid 4.0's integration with the SMS Management Console allows for the management of virtual machines within SMS, and the upgraded platform offers native SMS inventory and metering integration so that virtual machines can be tracked, reported and stored in asset management systems.

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