In the past few weeks, I've spoken with representatives of JBoss and TIBCO. Both of these companies are proponents of the idea that Web-based applications are best built using an application ...

Virtualization is a hot topic in today's demanding "get-more-for-less" business environment. Consolidating numerous computer systems so they run efficiently on fewer servers is a standard ...

Citrix Local App Access Eliminates Double-Hop HDX. One of the new features of XenDesktop 7 and XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack is Local App Access, a technology you might be familiar with under the name ...

Application acrobatics. At one end of the spectrum are products like Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS). Tools like SVS employ what might be called the “brute force” method: A ...

In order for an application to work in a SaaS deployment, it has to be Web-native. The pure application virtualization model (also referred to as application streaming) is by far the smartest ...

Local application virtualization isolates applications so that, generally speaking, they can’t natively interact with other applications.

A Vote for App Virtualization In retrospect, software packaging was a mind-melting, caffeine-consuming, head-banging-on-table process for a lot of years. But it was also illuminating.

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 enables large organizations to provide applications to end-user computers without installing the software on the local Windows operating system.

The story: Desktop virtualization is grabbing the headlines, but a wave of acquisitions and new product releases point to success for application virtualization — and heralds a better way to ...

IT executives exploy virtualized environments to manage applications. Ask IT executives whether they use application virtualization technology and chances are they’ll answer, “Well, that ...

Access Virtualization — hardware and software technology that allows nearly any device to access any application without either having to know too much about the other. The application sees a ...