Microsoft Application Virtualization
Dynamically streaming software as a centrally managed service
Microsoft Application Virtualization dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) for managing the applications your organization depends on. It does this by transforming applications into virtualized, network-available services that are not installed on users' computers. Instead, they are automatically delivered as people need them.
Challenges with today's corporate desktop
Today's business desktop is awash in applications. Each time your IT staff installs a new application, it requires extensive regression testing and deployment efforts before it can be used. Once the application is installed, users are tied to the computer it is running on.
Isolating applications and related user information from your employees' computers makes it much easier to manage the computers in your organization. Instead of requiring a complex series of time-consuming steps for each PC in your organization, Microsoft Application Virtualization helps transform desktop administration into a simpler, automated process for deploying, patching, updating, and removing applications.
Microsoft application virtualization: Advantages
Accelerate application management
By eliminating many tedious application management processes—including testing and installations—and enabling applications to run on clients without being installed on them, Application Virtualization accelerates the entire process. Your IT team can easily assign the latest approved applications to end users, who access them by simply clicking an icon.
Reduce total cost of ownership
Application Virtualization significantly reduces application management labor costs by streamlining, automating, and eliminating complex tasks. And because the applications are not installed on the PC, it also greatly increases application reliability because they no longer conflict with one another. It also enables applications that are not performing properly to be refreshed instantly. This means increased user productivity and reduced helpdesk and IT expense.
Ensure continuity of applications and user uptime
End users don't have to worry about losing productivity from application downtime because Application Virtualization enables users to access their applications even during unplanned outages or scheduled migration projects. With Application Virtualization, virtualized applications can be replicated to a backup site like any other enterprise data to maintain instant-on failover for applications, with user preferences totally intact. Users can also roam freely from computer to computer, confident in their ability to access the applications needed to perform their jobs.
Simplify IT environments
Application Virtualization centralizes application management, enabling easy application delivery to any client device from a single management console. It also simplifies operating system (OS) and desktop administration. Because most applications do not have to be repackaged for OS migrations, even large-scale projects can be handled quickly and easily. In addition, by minimizing the number of applications in OS images, Application Virtualization decreases image size and complexity and enables organizations to standardize and consolidate images, simplifying maintenance.
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Application Virtualization is a core component of the Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance—a suite of advanced technologies that improve desktop manageability and security and decrease TCO.
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