Application Virtualization for Medium Sized Businesses

Introduction

Typical application provisioning can cause major headaches, like overwriting key system files, crashes caused by installation conflicts, delays to end users, and more. Simply understanding how to repackage and automate application installation can be difficult and complex, especially for organizations where subject matter experts may not be on staff. Application virtualization can directly address these problems. Learn more in this recent Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper.

Key Findings

Application virtualization can assist medium sized businesses in a variety of ways:

Deployment and migration – new applications can be isolated from existing applications, preventing installation and removal problems while at the same time reducing the need for compatibility testing.
Application delivery – complete applications can be delivered by simply making the virtual application available to a target system without the need to install, update or uninstall in the traditional sense.
Security – individual applications are separated from the desktop, allowing use of applications that may otherwise have trouble running on a locked down desktop.

Recommendations

EMA research has shown time and again the positive effects that application virtualization can have in reducing overall application delivery and lifecycle management costs, and greater flexibility and agility in application delivery and resourcing practices.
EMA believes that while application virtualization provides a number of strong outcomes for large enterprises, it is also specifically applicable to the mid-market. Medium sized businesses facing increased pressures on productivity and overhead can turn to application virtualization to address common problems caused by lack of resources and staffing.

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