Hi Team,
I am new in ThinApp technology.
My question is that "Why think about Application virtualization before going to VDI or desktop virtualization."
Please help to clear my question.
Thanks
Yogesh
Application virtualization is technology which virtualize applications. It can help you:
VDI or Deskrop Virtualization is technology which helps you to provide users desktop which is isolated from others and it's under control of admins - some central desktop management.
Those two technologies don't have to be implemented in one time. They though can work together.
Have a nice day,
With Application Virtualization you'll make any transition easier. While the term isn't really clear to understand for anyone new to the technology I usually find it easier to explain by calling it Application Isolation/Redirection, which actually gives a clearer idea of what it is doing. What ThinApp (or any other Application Virtualization) does is catch calls the operating system does to the registry and files and reroute that to a single contained environment. With Application Virtualization you can deploy your applications without touching the other applications or operating system. The nice thing about ThinApp is that it's clientless so there is no need for any backend or client. The runtime is contained in the ThinApp, which is why you can even use multiple versions at the same time.
With VDI you try to consolidate resources and not buy 1000's of desktops every few years, because physical desktop migrations are a pain. You also try to make managing them easier because basically you'll only have to manage a single desktop (master image). But to get there you will have to do a migration, having Application Virtualization in place will make it an easy project instead of a hard one.
The second reason why you would want to do it is because with ThinApp there is no need to actually deploy the application to the VDI, they can be shown on the machine but actually run from a share or even dynamically mapped with virtual disks.
