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Application virtualization
Microsoft released service pack 1 for APP-V 4.6
01 year ago
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 1 (App-V 4.6 SP1) updates App-V 4.6 with the latest security and stability enhancements to help keep computers running App-V up-to-date, reliable, and more secure. The goal of this service pack is to increase the overall quality of the existing product features while maintaining a high level of compatibility with previous releases.
Feature Summary:
- Streamlined application sequencing – Improvements to the App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer make packaging applications for App-V easier and faster.
- Support for using a read-only cache on RDS – App-V 4.6 SP1 now supports using a shared, read-only cache in both VDI and RDS environments.
- Support for sequencing Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 – App-V 4.6 SP1 now supports sequencing the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.
- Customer Feedback and Hotfix Rollup – App-V 4.6 SP1 also includes a rollup up of fixes to address issues found since the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 release.
Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers
01 year ago
Source: Gartner ADC article.
Gartner released the magic quadrant report for Application Delivery Controllers.
The market for data-center-based solutions to optimize the delivery of applications across the network continues to develop, and our expectations increase with each revision of this Magic Quadrant. As a result, the Magic Quadrant axis depicts a shift up and to the right with each revision. Consequently, vendors must progress to maintain their positions in each new Magic Quadrant.
The ADC market provides asymmetrical solutions to improve the performance, efficiency, deployment and security of a wide range of applications. New use cases of the ADC technology continue to emerge, reflecting significant innovation in the market. These technologies apply across a growing base of enterprise applications that may use the Internet, or may have little or no roots in Internet and browser-based technologies. Although the market emerged from load-balancing solutions designed to improve the availability and reliability of websites, load balancing and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) termination for basic HTML traffic are no longer viable by themselves.
ADCs are often key components of diverse environments, such as portals, ERP systems, Microsoft Outlook and Office Communications Server (OCS), control points for virtualization, adjuncts to enterprise service buses (ESBs) or a service within service-oriented architecture (SOA), and, increasingly, as an element of application development environments. A more recent innovation is the emergence of software-based ADCs (softADCs) that can be deployed in more-flexible form factors. The primary interest has come from cloud providers that can more easily scale their environments as business dictates.
Most advanced platform (AP) ADCs incorporate rule-based extensibility that enables customers to customize the behavior of their AP ADCs. In addition, many AP ADCs incorporate programmatic control interfaces — open APIs — that enable them to be controlled by external systems, including application servers, data center management and provisioning applications, and network and system management applications.
Microsoft Server APP-V CTP released
01 year ago
Microsoft released the CTP of server APP-V. Source: Microsoft System Center blog.
Microsoft Server Application Virtualization builds on the technology used in client Application Virtualization, allowing for the separation of application configuration and state from the underlying operating system. This separation and packaging enables existing Windows applications, not specifically designed for Windows Azure, to be deployed on a Windows Azure worker role. We can do this in a way where the application state is maintained across reboots or movement of the worker role. This process allows existing, on-premises applications to be deployed directly onto Windows Azure, providing yet more flexibility in how organizations can take advantage of Microsoft’s cloud capabilities. Server Application Virtualization delivers:
- Application mobility: Server Application Virtualization enables organizations to move their applications from on-premises datacenters to Windows Azure to take advantage of Windows Azure’s scalability and availability. This application mobility provides a unique level of flexibility to organizations as their needs evolve, enabling movement from one environment to another as their business needs dictate without the need to re-compile or rewrite the application.
- Simplified deployment: With Server Application Virtualization, organizations are able to virtualize applications once and then deploy these packages as needed. This process creates a method to manage applications, simply and efficiently across their Windows Server® platform or to Windows Azure.
- Lower operational costs: By using Server Application Virtualization organizations can gain the lower management benefits of the Windows Azure platform for their existing applications. This is delivered through the virtualized application being deployed on the Windows Azure platform, meaning organizations get the benefit of Windows without the need to manage a Windows Server operating instance or image for that application. With Server Application Virtualization, organizations are able to virtualize applications once and then deploy the packages this process creates, simply and efficiently across their Windows Server® platform or to Windows Azure.
