- Thinking about application virtualisation? Do you know which applications are good candidates?
- Dramatically reduce SoftGrid deployment time and cost
- Avoid the risk of isolations causing applications to fail ... assess the issues and measure the risk quickly
- Identify dependencies early on and enable successful sequencing
Virtualisation Manager highlights issues which make applications unsuitable for virtualisation. It finds co-dependent resources. This is needed for successful grouping of applications during sequencing. And it identifies which applications are good candidates for virtualisation.
The Interoperability Dilemma
Microsoft® SoftGrid® is a powerful solution to historical desktop application interoperability problems. It manages applications over Windows Installer based solutions rapidly and efficiently. However, to successfully adopt this technology you need to identify which applications are suitable. And, decide what to do with an application to make it succeed under virtualisation.
Microsoft SoftGrid isolates applications from each other and the Operating System (OS). Virtualising the applications in this way means that they are completely separate from one another, and aren't installed to the OS in the traditional sense. Applications can still consume resources provided by the OS, but not from other applications.
Assess and measure the risk
Isolation causes incompatibilities with the Microsoft SoftGrid system. Where applications provide resources which require tight integration with the OS (e.g. drivers), their isolation prevents successful functioning. Similarly, when applications communicate with each other or consume resources delivered by applications, isolations cause application failure.
With Virtualisation Manager you can easily assess the issues and measure the risk.
Identify issues and dependencies
A virtualised application solution helps your IT department reduce their labour costs. This in turn lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and delivers greater value to the business. Understanding how to manage a successful SoftGrid project can be complex and require expensive, technically skilled specialists.
Virtualisation Manager quickly highlights issues. It analyses the entire portfolio in advance, and enables complex and difficult to identify dependencies to be identified early. This results in greater accuracy, time savings and success in sequencing.
Virtualisation Manager: Features:
- Summary and detailed reporting in 'traffic light' status
- Automatically identifies known issues that would affect an application's suitability for virtualisation, such as drivers, shell extensions and plug-ins.
- Reporting of issues: detailed explanation of what they mean, their potential impact, and recommended remediation advice
- Application resource dependency mapping to identify applications which rely on other applications and should be 'sequenced' together and allow for successful contexting.
- Identifies resources which should be added or removed from sequences to ease operation
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Virtualisation Manager: Benefits:
- Rapid assessment of entire portfolio to see if the application is suitable for virtualisation with Microsoft SoftGrid, before the project, reduces cost and enables accurate project planning
- Reduce risk by scoping the remediation activity required to sequence successfully
- Detailed technical information about the applications improves prioritisation of sequencing activity
- Sequencing projects are more successful: better decision making, and reduced time, overall project cost and risk to the business
