| Softricity's SMS Announcement - What Does This Really Mean For The Application Virtualization Ma |
| Wednesday, 15 March 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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"First off, let me explain the basics of this very important announcement. To summarize, Softricity has partnered with Microsoft to offer a product that integrates Softricity SoftGrid - including application virtualization, on-demand streaming and self-provisioning – right into Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). This means that any SMS customer can now virtualize their applications and use them throughout their existing SMS application deployment. They can push out virtualized applications using SMS' delivery push methods, stream them on-demand using Softricity's pull methods, and they can use SMS's metering and asset management tools to discover and track both MSIs and virtualized applications. Softricity is offering two version of the product. SoftGrid for SMS Universal allows you to do all the things you can do with SoftGrid (virtualization and streaming) from within SMS. SoftGrid for SMS VX (virtual extensions) just lets you virtualize – and uses the SMS push delivery to get the virtualized applications to end-users. With this solution, there is no longer a need for a SoftGrid Management Console and, with their VX version (virtualization only, no streaming), the SoftGrid Server. The only requirement is for applications to be virtualized through Softricity's Sequencer. This process is very similar to most traditional packaging tools, so basically it means that if you have an SMS deployment, you don't have to change much in your process to get the benefits of virtualization and streaming." Read the full article here.
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