VMware Research Report Sample

Application Virtualization can provide significant benefits to enterprises. By reducing application conflicts, enabling legacy applications for OS migration, and no longer requiring 'install' of applications, IT staff can significantly reduce the cost of regression testing, deploying and managing applications. Insulating applications from the operating system delivers IT flexibility by allowing a reduction in the number of OS images to support, centralizing update of application dependencies (.Net Framework, Java JRE, etc.), and enabling a transition to stateless virtual desktops.

For enterprises seeking to save time and money with application virtualization, VMware ThinApp offers the most efficient packaging and deployment solution with considerably less administrative overhead, client-side requirements, and infrastructure investment than Microsoft App-V or Citrix XenApp.