Microsoft's Application Virtualization 4.5 has a lot to offer enterprises, but the product comes with packaging and setup issues that need to be overcome for it to work properly.

In the case of desktop and application virtualization, the emergence of supporting solutions, such as Kidaro’s Managed Workspace product, demonstrates that the segment is gaining traction.

In 2017, for example, the Biloxi Public School District used desktop replication to create a cloud classroom and boost its STEM program. With VDI and application virtualization, we could start to see ...

Scott Baker, application programmer/analyst in the desktop support group, says Microsoft’s app virtualization technology was no help because “App-V did not support the virtualization of IE6 .” ...

VMware is launching the first release of a product that comes from its January acquisition of the application virtualization company Thinstall. VMware said their Thinstall 4.0 product will let ...

A wallflower: That’s how I used to describe Thinstall when discussing the movers and shakers of the application virtualization party scene. With its chief competitors already paired off and ...

The application-centric approach also becomes an imperative as dynamic data centers change the shape of the application ecosystem. For example, virtualization can add a processing strain by ...

So virtualization provides for even more robust forms of multitenancy than had previously been possible by cleaving the OS into separate hardware- and application-facing components.

Type 1 hypervisors typically run on servers and are considered more efficient and better-performing than Type 2 hypervisors, making them well suited to server, desktop and application virtualization.

A good example of this is application virtualization, a label applied to products that insulate running programs from the underlying desktop. The idea behind application virtualization is to eliminate ...