SoftGrid Platform 4
Friday, 21 April 2006 by Michel Roth
Today, Softricity ended the SoftGrid 4 beta program. The final release will be available as version 4.0.0.524. This release is the culmination of an effort that began more than a year ago to take SoftGrid to the next level and extend its value to customers. Version 4 started with best-in-class virtualization, effective management and enterprise readiness as its main objectives.

To outline just a few of the key capabilities:

Extended Virtualization
• Virtual services support
• Automatic detection of all file types associated with applications
• 100%+ faster virtualization

Effective Management
• Active Upgrade™
• Hierarchical application organization and group management
• One-click configuration portability

Enterprise Ready
• Policy-based central management
• Support for hundreds of virtual applications on tens of hundreds of desktops
• Integrated with Windows management infrastructure in general and MMC in particular

and many more smaller features (for a total of 34+ ).

The official release announcement will follow shortly at the Microsoft Management Summit on April 24, 2006.

Read it all at the source, Bob de Kousemaeker's blog. He also has a review up on the Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS)2.

Many thanks to Wilco van Bragt in pointing these blog entries out to me.

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