Application lifecycle management made simple with app virtualization

[IMAGE]Virtualization is taking over the datacenter at all levels. Organizations are greening their datacenters by transforming physical servers into virtual machines, but there is no better return on their investment than with application virtualization (AppV).

The reason is because applications, especially the ones that are distributed to PCs, represent the single biggest problem organizations must deal with. Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the most resource-intensive undertaking for many organizations, with issues such as conflict management, DLL hell, application patching, application deployment and remote installation among the chief concerns.[IMAGE]

Preparing a simple application for deployment can take from one to 10 days, depending on its complexity. When you have more than 300 applications to manage, this takes considerable effort. What if you could just make it go away?

Well this is the promise of app virtualization. It captures the "running state" of an application, not its installation, and it's this running state that is delivered to the desktop, not a Windows Installer-based installation.

The components of application virtualization

What makes application virtualization tick? In a perfect world, your AppV implementation would include the following components: Overall, the applicatio

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n virtualization process should make it easier for desktop administrators to manage the application lifecycle while providing a transparent experience to end users. AppV is redesigning the application lifecycle management process (see Figure 1).

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With AppV, the entire application lifecycle is simplified.

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