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Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization

Transform applications into virtualized services that are rapidly available.

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization is the only
virtualization solution that delivers applications that are never
installed and dynamically delivered, on demand. Whether deployed on desktops, laptops or, terminal servers,
SoftGrid changes application management from a series of manual tasks
into an automated, streamlined process that accelerates the pace and
reduces the cost of business.

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Windows Desktops

Accelerate desktop deployments, streamline management and improve end-user productivity.

Challenges with Today’s Corporate Desktop

Today’s
business desktop is awash in applications. Each installed application
requires lengthy regression testing and deployment processes before it
reaches production. Because applications are only available where they
are installed, users are tied to their computers. All this makes
complex yet critical projects such as OS and application migrations,
security refreshes, and disaster recovery plans even harder to complete.

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Windows Desktops changes all that. It transforms applications into virtualized, network-available services that are never installed and never conflict,
minimizing costly compatibility testing. Users and their application
environments are no longer machine-specific, and the machines
themselves are no longer user-specific. This can enable IT to be much
more flexible and responsive to business needs, and dramatically reduce
the cost of desktop management initiatives.

SoftGrid for Windows Desktop Advantages

With SoftGrid’s extensive application virtualization, dynamic streaming delivery and centralized management capabilities, desktop administration is streamlined and simple:

•	Minimize application conflicts and regression testing: By eliminating the requirement to install applications on desktops or laptops, and shielding the OS and applications from changes normally created when applications are installed and run, Microsoft SoftGrid prevents problems that hinder deployments. This also minimizes the need to perform regression testing and, as a result, speeds deployments.
•	Simplify OS migrations and patching: Turn time-consuming, tedious migration and patching projects into largely automated, conflict-free processes. Most applications do not have to be repackaged for OS migrations and this eliminates regression testing.
•	Build business continuity for applications: Replicate your virtualized applications like any other enterprise data to maintain an instant-on failover plan for your applications, significantly cutting end-user downtime. If you configure SoftGrid user profiles to persist on the network, all user-specific application preferences can also easily be replicated to a back-up site.
•	Secure desktops: Not only are application permissions centralized, but the applications and licenses that run on laptops are protected from unauthorized use. Applications can be locked down in read-only mode so that they can’t be altered or used in unauthorized ways. In addition, application isolation keeps the OS pristine, helping prevent and contain security breaches and infections.
•	Reduce helpdesk calls: Cut IT helpdesk call volume while improving quality of service. By eliminating application conflicts, SoftGrid cuts the number of problems end-users experience with their desktops. If problems can't be solved quickly, you can simply refresh the application from the management console. Users get a more reliable desktop experience, and you get fewer calls.

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization is available as part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance.
This dynamic solution helps reduce application deployment costs, enable
delivery of applications as services, and lets you better manage and
control enterprise desktop environments.

Build Business Continuity for Applications

By
virtualizing applications, SoftGrid essentially turns applications into
data files. As a result, these virtualized applications can be treated
— and replicated — just like data, making them easier to manage.

Data
isn't the only thing that suffers when you have a major outage.
Applications are also impacted: end users are offline and productivity
is severely hampered.

What if you could have users log into any
corporate Windows computer and access their full desktop with the same
locally running applications they had at their original location? This
is a reality for organizations that build Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization into their disaster recovery plans.

Normally,
rebuilding user systems is a complicated process that can take anywhere
from a few hours to several days. Much time is spent customizing your
company's core image to user, including installing user-specific
applications and recreating the user's application preferences.

SoftGrid, on the other hand, virtualizes application, turning them into data files that can be treated – and replicated – just like data, making them much easier to manage:

•	Applications can be kept up-to-date between live sites and back-up sites by replicating virtualized applications files on the live sites' SoftGrid servers with the SoftGrid servers at the back-up site (using third-party tools).
•	If administrators configure SoftGrid user profiles to persist on the network, all user-specific application preferences can also easily be replicated to a back-up site.
•	SoftGrid separates the state of user interactions from the application's own state. This makes user application profiles consistent and easy to restore in case of application or hardware failures.
•	This provides dramatic time savings; the alternative is to install applications to each terminal server and desktop at the back-up site each time a change is made at the live site. It also significantly reduces end-user downtime.