Application Virtualisation : An Application for the 21st Century

Why Application Virtualisation  

So now that we know what application virtualisation is, let’s take a look at why management should take a closer a look at products such as SVS. The major benefits of application virtualisation include:-

• Efficiency Gains in Compatibility and Regression Testing

  Application virtualisation allows you to totally eliminate compatibility and regression testing.  In other words, from a compatibility perspective, as each application is being run in its own virtual space, it will not impact on any other application’s DLL files or registry settings so from this perspective it cannot impact on the other application (obviously it will still affect the available memory for the other application).

  From a regression testing perspective, your support department can spend months simply testing the impact of security patches and other software updates on the application itself, on the coexistence with other applications and on the operating system.

  Having a virtual application environment enables you to totally bypass this process as you would simply have two versions of the software. One copy with the update and the copy previous to the update. Should the updated one fail, you would simply replace it with the original copy.

• Application Plug and Play

  Applications can now be treated as modules with different user configurations, different patches and updates and simply slotted in and out of the desktop whenever they are required by the user. This reduces the amount of time a support engineer has to uninstall an application to make way for a newer or older version.