Application virtualization is a technologically elegant solution that isolates applications and reduces conflicts. That’s good for IT management and has the additional virtue of being financially alluring. From legacy to the latest enterprise business applications, virtualized deployment eases management and supports secure access. Companies save money and boost efficiency using application virtualization within any IT infrastructure.

As an IT strategy, application virtualization is advanced as a best-practice solution in two critical scenarios. In services environments, application virtualization is implemented as a VDI solution incorporating application virtualization as a means of controlling the desktop environment.

 

Deployed in data centers with Citrix Presentation Servers, application virtualization is a strong deployment strategy, speeding access and assuring integrity of the host system. Distributed from a share file, companies save the cost and headache of adding and managing siloed servers. This session will provide use-case illustrations to de-mystify application virtualization and outline the business benefits of applying this technology.

 

Speaker Bio: Jonathan Clark is Founder, CTO & President of Thinstall. He co-founded the video game development company Crack dot Com in 1994, which produced the original PC and Mac titles Abuse and Golgotha and ported Doom and Quake to Unix platforms. He founded Thinstall in 1999 originally focusing on virtualization and copy protection technology solutions for software publishers.

 

The first version of Thinstall for application virtualization was released in 2001 after several years of R&D. Clark continues the development of Thinstall technology for the enterprise and participates in the company's business direction.

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions. This explosive growth in SOA technology is in response to a global demand--IDC estimates that spending on SOA services alone will grow from $8.6 billion to more than $33 billion by 2010.

 

SOA World Conference & Expo
SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 brings together the best minds in the business to San Francisco for a two-day conference that offers comprehensive coverage of SOA and what it means to enterprise IT today. As Zapthink analyst Jason Bloomberg has noted, "SOA involves rethinking how the business leverages IT in many various ways." Attend SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 West and learn from more than 100 speakers about how SOA is transforming business--and the way IT and business managers think about their businesses, processes, and technology.

Virtualization Conference & Expo
The colocation of SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 West and Virtualization Conference & Expo delivers the most relevant content to IT and business. Conference attendees will be able to choose from four great tracks at this year's event. Mix and match all you want, or slot into your favorite topic for the duration! The tracks include:

 

• Web 2.0/AJAX and SOA

• Interop Standards and Services

• Real-World SOA

• SOA Technology

• Virtualization

• Specially Selected Hot Topics

 

This year's conference will also feature two Power Panels. Don't miss the SOA/Web 2.0/AJAX Power Panel, and Virtualization Power Panel. The Power Panels are FREE to all attendees, and will be recorded for broadcast by SYS-CON.TV.

 

The best news for this year's conference delegates is that the "Golden Pass" registration now provides full access to all conference sessions.