The subject line will make sense in a moment. It's a quote from a customer in Australia ... and pretty funny, too. But before that, a few items crossed my inbox that I thought I'd share:
Software vendor AspenTech has a process engineering/manufacturing application called aspenONE. Today they announced that their customer BASF deployed aspenONE using Microsoft App-V. I found this interesting for a few reasons. One, I've participated in conversations about whether enterprise customers would deploy 3rd-party apps running on App-V/SoftGrid without some sort of application certification program/logo for App-V. Second, BASF runs large, complex chemical process simulations - and now they're doing so as a network service. I know these sorts of computer-aided engineering apps often times get computed on HPC clusters; but never did I think they'd then get streamed at sufficient speed to the desktop using application virtualization.
Along the lines of App-V, J.C. over at the App-V blog noted some new downloads.
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 security configuration wizard. Download here.
Microsoft Application Virtualization best practices anayzer. Download here.
J.C. wrote last week that App-V 4.5 for Terminal Services license will be available Nov. 1. Read more here.
Adam over at TechNet Edge just posted a video interview with the authors of "Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed." I mentioned Rand's and Jeff's book a couple weeks ago. I had the opportunity to meet Rand/Jeff last week while they were up here in Redmond. Rand spoke to a bunch of us about Convergent's business, and set us straight that applications (Exchange, Sharepoint) and solutions such as disaster recovery and compliance are driving his customers' infrastructure purchases (e.g., Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center) ... not the other way around. Here's a link to Jeff's blog.
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Filed under: Application Virtualization, BASF, Disaster Recovery, ESX, Hyper-V, Microsoft Application Virtualization, SoftGrid, System Center, virtual machine, virtualization, virtualization management, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization
I am Gavriella Schuster and I am responsible for the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) within the Windows team. This week I was fortunate enough to participate in a panel discussion at Interop with my peers at Symantec, Citrix, and VMWare discussing
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Filed under: Swedish Medical Center, Application Virtualization, BASF, Clarian Health Partners, Interop, Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Microsoft Asset Inventory Service, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset, Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring, SoftGrid, State of Indiana, System Center
