Virtual Approach to Traditional Software Deployment and Maintenance Issues

Most organizations are still struggling with maintaining their non-packaged and legacy software deployments as part of the client management lifecycle. Although there are several tools to automate software deployment, the overall process still includes lots of manual tasks which causes high labour and errors. Crucial tasks like packaging, testing and provisioining are not streamlined and very time-consuming.

Because of all this difficulties, it is known that only a small portion of the application portolio are packaged in the organizations. This means that many applications are still installed manually and blocking the agility of IT environment.

Now there is a new approach to solve this traditional software deployment issues which is called Application virtualization.  Application Virtualization is an alternative solution to traditional application deployment. Its using variety of technologies like resource isolation and streaming and solves todays most potential pain points like packaging, testing and  deployment. This solution will help organizations automate software distribution and reduce their costs and application troubleshooting.

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) version 4.5 has been released to manufacturing. Formerly known as SoftGrid, App-V 4.5 is the first Microsoft-branded release of the product. For more information, please visit the Application Virtualization Blog.