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BASF Keeps Its Engineers Productive With the Latest Optimization Software

BASF IT Services supports networks and computers for nearly 60,000 users worldwide. The company followed an expensive certification process to ensure flawless operation of the applications it makes available - but the careful certification process was delaying the delivery of applications. BASF IT Services needed a way to shorten application...

Tags: Software, Certification, Optimization, Software Virtualization, BASF AG, Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-04-01

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization accelerates the deployment and management of the company's software infrastructure by virtualizing applications - enabling them to be deployed on-demand to desktops, laptops and servers without installation or altering the computers they run on. This dramatically reduces the cost of managing applications - and enables users...

Tags: Application Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

Webcasts 2008-01-01

Additional Resources

Welcome to the Microsoft Webcast on Microsoft Client Virtualization

The presenter of this webcast will introduce to two virtualization technologies from Microsoft: APP-V (or Application Virtualization - formerly SoftGrid Application Virtualization) and MED-V Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization. The webcast highlights capabilities these solutions provide for streamlining application delivery, application to application conflicts and application to OS conflicts.

Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

Webcasts 2008-12-05

Providence Health & Services - Oregon: Case Study in OS Streaming and Application Virtualization

Driven by the need to control costs of desktop management, Providence Health & Services - Oregon (PH&S - Oregon) recently undertook an initiative to gain greater control and standardization of desktop configurations, while providing performance and flexibility to meet business unit needs. Goals for this initiative included maximizing system availability,...

Tags: Operating System, Oregon, Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Application Performance Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Blade Servers, Storage Management, Hardware, Servers, Storage

White papers 2008-11-01

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Product Overview

Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, is a key component of the Microsoft datacenter-to-desktop virtualization strategy. Other components of this strategy include presentation virtualization with Microsoft Terminal Service, desktop virtualization with Microsoft Virtual PC and application virtualization with Microsoft SoftGrid. All Microsoft virtualization solutions are managed with familiar...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-10-01

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, System Center VM Manager 2008 will ship in 30 days

Microsoft will announce today that its long awaited Hyper-V Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 will ship in 30 days. The Redmond, Wash company will also demonstrate a live migration feature planned for Windows Server 2008 R2. That's not all. Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, released...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Storage, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Healthcare Provider Eliminates Application Conflicts With Application Virtualization

Community Medical Centers operates three acute-care hospitals and several long-term care and outpatient centers in California's San Joaquin Valley. With more than 350 computer applications to maintain, the organization was encountering a growing number of application conflicts. In response, Community Medical Centers deployed Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.2 to its...

Tags: Application, Health Care Company, Health Care, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Workstations, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Productivity, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-06-01

What we do know about Windows 7

Since Microsoft still isn't willing to talk -- or even comment on any of the information its own employees already have discussed publicly -- about Windows 7, I thought I'd make a list of the many things that are known already about Windows 7 (beyond the 2010 due date). ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-27

XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer benefits but no panacea for IT managers

I am always skeptical about new technologies that "threaten" to transform the traditional PC desktop. In my 20 years following the PC industry, I’ve seen them all â€" server-based models, thin clients, application streaming technologies, hosted ASP and newer software-as-a-service models, even Linux.  I still use a...

Tags: Desktop Management, Benefit, Server, ScriptStart, Leostream, Desktops, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Telecommunications Firm Standardizes Software Platform, Cuts Costs 44%

T-Systems sought to improve productivity for employees in its Austrian office by standardizing the desktop environment on the Windows Vista operating system and 2007 Microsoft Office system, including Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. To achieve a smooth transition for the 600 employees, T-Systems needed a way to shorten application deployment...

Tags: Software, T-Systems, Software Virtualization, Telecommunications, Microsoft Corp.

Case studies 2008-05-08

Office streaming: What Microsoft will and won't say

Last week, there was talk that Microsoft was considering broadening the way it makes Microsoft Office available over the Web using streaming technology. (For the record, it wasn't Microsoft doing the talking; it was some overly enthused partners.) On April 30, Microsoft shared a...

Tags: Softricity SoftGrid, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Microsoft to expand its Office streaming service?

Computerworld is reporting that Microsoft is likely to announce the week of April 28 a new licensing arrangement for Office via which it would be available as a streamed service. The thinking, according to the report, is that this would give Microsoft, its partners and customers another...

Tags: Desktop, Softricity SoftGrid, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Is Hyper-V ready for the Windows desktop?

A few days ago, my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow offered some suggestions on how he would design Windows 7 for maximum backward compatibility. One of his key proposals involved using virtualization to solve application compatibility problems: What if Microsoft were to build a “Personal� Hyper-V...

Tags: Desktop, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, VM, Linux Integration Component, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Reports of Windows' demise are greatly exaggerated

I was planning to avoid posting about Gartner's "Windows will collapse under its own weight" presentation from earlier this week because I felt it was a bunch of hype that didn't provide any new insights or conclusions. But given how many others are riffing -- and riffing...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-11

InstallFree and Desktop Virtualization

It seems that various forms of "desktop virtualization" are coming from everywhere right now. I've spoken with a number of market newcomers and still come across new, interesting approaches to offering people the "desktop experience" without requiring their own desktop computer. I had the chance to speak with Yori Gabay,...

Tags: Application, Desktop Virtualization, Environment, Virtual Machine, InstallFree Desktop, IFV, IFV Application, IFV Desktop, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Ceedo: Application Virtualization for the Desktop

Dror Gill, Chief Strategy Officer of Ceedo Technologies Ltd. and I played an exciting round of Email tag a few weeks ago. Ceedo presents its technology as "portable desktop virtualiztion." What does that mean? Well, my posts Just what is “desktop virtualization� anyway?, The Role Application Virtualization Plays in Desktop...

Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Technology, Ceedo Technologies Ltd., Dror, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-26

TechNet Webcast: System Center Advanced Application Management (Level 300)

Microsoft System Center Wave 2 brings a collection of new and enhanced capabilities for application management. As the customers and partners begin to think about more advanced solutions in their environments, applications now have new options for packaging, delivery, and management. This webcast highlights the new capabilities for application management...

Tags: Webcast, Application Management, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, It Services, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing

Webcasts 2008-03-10

Momentum Webcast: Windows Vista Desktop Optimization Pack Overview for Mid-Sized Businesses (Level 100)

The attendee of this webcast will learn about the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack MDOP for the Windows Vista operating system as an add-on for Software Assurance SA. MDOP can help enable to better control the desktop, accelerate and simplify desktop deployments and management, and create a dynamic infrastructure by turning...

Tags: Webcast, Optimization, Midsize Business, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts 2008-03-06

Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratch

Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratchNow that makes sense.Which means it probably won't happen.Makes too much senseWindows is now an unmanagable mess. This solution makes complete sense! They talk about backward compadiblity, but if they are so concerned about backward compadiblity,...

Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, operating system, new OS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

Utility Company Speeds Desktop Deployment, Enhances Security With New Operating System

Companies usually upgrade the majority of their IT infrastructure every three years. Business plans at Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG, a public utility company, called for upgrading 2,500 PC and notebook computers to a new Windows operating system in 2007. At that time, the release of the Windows Vista operating system was...

Tags: Desktop, Security, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2008-02-01