Application Virtualization presentation

I had presentation yesterday about application virtualization - I was talking about appvirt in general, then focusing on available solutions (SoftGrid, XenApp, Thinstall, SVS, AppStream, AppExpress, XenoCode....).

As mentioned in my previous post, I will try to immediately upload all presentations before I forget. So here it comes:

If you are interested in this topic, just leave some comments and I can write a little bit about it.

Published Fri, Mar 28 2008 10:31 by martin
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# re: Application Virtualization presentation

Just a couple of questions.

Why does thinstall have a security impact because it runs in UserMode?

I am not clear what you were concerned about.

I am guessing you mean that someone can package an app and run it on a locked down desktop. Thus bypassing security? Is this what you meant or not?

Friday, March 28, 2008 7:39 AM by Andy

# re: Application Virtualization presentation

Hi Andy,

that is exactly what I ment... Right now it is not really big concern, but it could be if (potentially) VMWare will decide to wrap some enterprise architecture around Thinstall and release "core" (current version) for free - which is something I really hope they will do. They could pretty easily change the world and still earn lot of money out of it. But if Thinstall will get promoted (and it will, at least due to fact that VMWare will now promote it), more and more people will start to use it and it will become bigger concern of security (because if you dont implement SAFER, you cant easily manage Thinstalled applications on locked-down desktops).

Martin

Friday, March 28, 2008 10:32 AM by martin