SystemGuard provides the most extensive virtualization on the market. In addition to virtualizing Windows Services, it virtualizes per user, per application instance (I emphasis this bit! It is not a computer based distribution methodology!), every critical application component including the Registry, file system, DLLs, COM/IPC, .INI files, process environment and fonts: Registry: SystemGuard creates…
Year: 2007
Softgrid and Terminal Servers
In Terminal Server/Citrix Environments we see a lot of over capacity of the server estate. Specifically when a business has one troublesome application that has incompatibilities with others that already are in place on the server farm. You have all probably seen the below where we show a basic over view off applications conflicting; Application…
Third Party Tools Starting to come out for Softgrid
So a sign of a successful toolset is when third parties start to offer nice tools to utilise for the community, which I see this often with other tools on the market for Altiris SVS. Since Microsoft aquired Softgrid and plumited the price of the product and access to the product we now are getting much more…
The Virtual World Starts Today
So I wanted to finally kick of my ramblings on the strategies and developments of Microsoft and where we look to see the development of Virtualization moving towards in the future. It is also worth us adding that the views expressed in these blogs are ours only and do not form part of any other…