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- Microsoft's Softricity buy: I hear a new tune from Redmond
- Microsoft's Softricity buy: I hear a new tune from RedmondBeware!~MS is legendary for buying a software co. then:1. Burying it in the beauracy2. Intergrating it poorly, very poorly3. renaming the product and stripping functionality4. Improving the product until it is incompatible with itself5. Buying to kill, if it sees an...
- Tags: Softricity Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-06-01
- Microsoft deal puts the smarts into Vista
- I'd been meaning to write about Softricity for a while because of the significance of its technology for Microsoft's smart client strategy, particularly in the context of Vista. Well, now that Microsoft has bought Softricity, the time has come for me to set down my thoughts. I last spoke...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- Microsoft's Softricity buy: I hear a new tune from Redmond
- Fascinating acquisition this week by Microsoft in picking up Boston-based Softricity. This has implications for how Microsoft can move in a number of directions. More than almost anything else I've seen from Microsoft, this acquisition speaks to Redmond's need to produce highly cost-efficient means to support and deliver as a...
- Tags: benefit, Microsoft Corp., Softricity Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- Softricity SoftGrid: Simplifying Large-Scale Windows XP Migrations
- This white paper discusses how Softricity's SoftGrid virtualization technology enables organizations to streamline and accelerate enterprise-scale Windows XP migrations, eliminating key pain points and lowering the barriers of time, cost and effort involved. The paper highlights the challenges inherent in these XP migrations, including significant time and cost requirements, and...
- Tags: Softricity SoftGrid, Softricity Inc., Migration, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Using Virtualization as the Cure for Security and Spyware Ills
- This web seminar covers the security benefits of The SoftGrid Application Virtualization Platform, including how SoftGrid can be used to combat Spyware. It also covers how SoftGrid protects Windows client and Terminal Services operating systems, enables a manageable locked down environment and prevents the pirating and/or theft of software.
- Tags: Virtualization, Softricity SoftGrid, Softricity Inc., Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Terminal Services, Channel Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Marketing
- Webcasts
- Virtualization in an Always-On, Mobile & Sometimes Disconnected World
- While the Internet has made most things available from anywhere, software - from spreadsheets to design programs - has remained static and unavailable in a growing on-demand world. This is because software has to be installed to the machine it runs on, making it hard to move it from one...
- Tags: Software, Virtualization, Mobile, Softricity Inc., Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management
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- 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 – 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
- 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
- Microsoft Vista creates problems - Kidaro to the rescue
- I just read through the announcement the Microsoft is acquiring the "desktop virtualization" player Kidaro. It didn't take much thought to understand the reasons why if one only reads media and analyst comments about Microsoft's current desktop operating system, Microsoft Vista Who's Kidaro? I...
- Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Desktop Virtualization, Kidaro Presents Virtual Corporate, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Just what is "desktop virtualization" anyway?
- Just what is "desktop virtualization" anyway?Desktone is in here, tooGreat stuff, as always, Dan. I'd like to point to Desktone in this space, too (http://www.desktone.com). They are backed by former Softricity folks, and Citrix. Something the watch, I'd say.RE: Just what isI appreciate the effort of trying to explain to...
- Tags: Desktone, desktop virtualization, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Citrix strays far from XenSource's original open source mission
- In 2005, hot new startup XenSource was positioning itself as the open source alternative to VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server. Then came a controversial pact in 2006 between the powers that be at the Palo Alto virtualization software company and Microsoft. The mail goal, XenSource executives...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenSource Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy
- Updated 11:00 AM PST: Microsoft will formally unveil its grand virtualization strategy tomorrow at a Virtualization Deployment Summit in Bellevue, WA, highlighted by the acquisition of Calista Technologies, a deeper alliance with Citrix and initiatives for deploying virtualization from desktops to data centers (see also Mary Jo Foley's take on...
- Tags: Combination, Desktop, Server, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, EMC Corp., System Center, Hyper-V, Money Line, Application Virtualization, Presentation Virtualization, Microsoft System Center, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- VMware acquires Thinstall
- VMware just announced that it is acquiring Thinstall and it appeared wise to look a bit at what VMware is doing. The financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed. It is clear to me that that VMware is working very hard to be VIRTUALIZATION for...
- Tags: Software, Application, Environment, VMware Inc., Technology, Virtual Machine, Thinstall Thinstall, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- IBM remains way out in front on information access despite Microsoft's Fast bid
- Ever notice that Microsoft -- with cash to burn apparently -- waits for the obvious to become inevitable and then ends up paying huge premiums for companies in order to catch up to reality? We saw it with aQuantive, Softricity and Groove Networks. It's happened again with...
- Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Review of AppStream Demonstration
- AppStream demonstrated AppStream 5.2, an application streaming one of the functions in the application virtualization segment of the Kusnetzky Group virtualization model for me yesterday. I have spoken with company representatives in the past and was having trouble distinguishing their offering from competitors, such as Endeavors Technology, Softricity, LANDesk or...
- Tags: Application, AppStream Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Thinstall puts application virtualization on a diet
- The good folks at Thinstall contacted me to comment on my LANDesk posts. Some of the interesting capabilities of LANDesk that allows applications to be encapsulated, streamed down to a user's system and run there in a protected environment came from Thinstall. Henrik Rosendahl, CEO of Thinstall helped me better...
- Tags: Application, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Thinstall, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- SoftGrid app-virtualization: Another way to offer software as a service
- MDOP, the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, is the fastest-selling-ever Volume Licensing product from Microsoft, according to the company. Since Microsoft introduced MDOP six months ago, customers have bought 2 million licenses for MDOP.MDOP consists of a number of different tools and technologies, all of which are developed by Microsoft's System...
- Tags: Virtualization, System Center, Office 2007, Office, Google, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- 'Desktop as a service' coming soon to a PC near you
- Desktop virtualization as a service has gotten a big boost with Desktone Inc.'s announcement today of $17 million in venture capital funds that will allow the company to finance global sales, marketing, and development. Desktone, a Chelmsford, Mass., startup offers what it says is the industry's first unified virtual desktop...
- Tags: Web Technology, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, SOA, SaaS, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, management, ITIL, IT Management, IT Service Management, Internet, Enterprise 2.0, content delivery network, Akamai
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Application Streaming and Why Your Organization Should Care
- There are many approaches to offering computing services to mobile staff today. One approach is providing everyone with their own laptop, their own portfolio of applications and making them become their own system manager, security manager and operations manager. Although that is still a very reasonable approach for mobile...
- Tags: Access virtualization, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Evergrid -- High Performance Computing in the Enterprise
- Recently I had the opportunity to speak with representatives of Evergrid, a company that focuses on how to apply high performance/grid computing techniques in enterprise computing environments. Since I've spoken to many companies attempting to deploy open source tools, such as Beowulf or Grid Engine, in commercial data centers, I...
- Tags: virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
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