SoftGrid Application Virtualization
By Brian Ducharme
published: Friday, May 25 2007
VSM speaks with Bill Corrigan, Director of Product Management for SoftGrid (formerly Softricity) about Application Virtualization
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Podcast Summary:
Length: 25:53
Introduction
What is SoftGrid (00:20)
Application virtualization Overview (00:45)
Application isolation (01:05)
On demand streaming (01:40)
Suiteing and Efficiency (02:26)
Acquisition by Microsoft (03:56)
Microsoft is “the only complete virtualization and management vendor”(04:39)
Microsoft’s virtualization products stack (04:46)
Managing physical and virtual infrastructure with System Center (05:40)
Differences between SoftGrid and Altiris SVS (07:12)
Installing some software or going 100% virtual (09:57)
Problem Applications like JVM (11:18)
Six versions of Access at the same time (11:59)
How do you manage SoftGrid (12:40)
Mobile computing and SoftGrid (14:53)
Plans for the future (17:52)
New Feature Context (19:20)
64 bit and VHD file format (20:40)
Renting Microsoft Software for a day (21:12)
Server farms (21:35)
More info (22:50)
SCVMM (23:00)
Using SCVMM with SoftGrid (23:12)
p2v, v2v, and Powershelf (24:11)
Script anything (24:30)
Closing
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Related Links:
www.softricity.com
Microsoft System Center VMM
www.altiris.com
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