Benefits and Backend

The following is the first in a series of excerpts from text that I wrote with the help of John Flanagan and Brian Kelly. We used this as an extension of the SoftGrid training that we were offering right after the acquisition of Softricity by Microsoft as it is a “transcript� of a lecture I would give. I have broken this into a multi part series to make the whole 37 page original manuscript easier to digest on a blog post. Over the course of the posts we will dig deeper and deeper into the concepts of SoftGrid in a technical nature.

Major Benefits of SoftGrid

The following are some of the major benefits of SoftGrid that we will explore:

• Simplify Operating System Migrations
• Central Management and Control
• Eliminate Application Conflicts
• Simplify Updates to Applications
• Multi Tenancy
• Reduce Server Silos
• Run Multiple Versions of the same application on one system
• Terminate or Retire Applications Easily
• Configuration Control

Easier Deployments

The thought of migrating an Enterprise Organization’s base operating system can make even the most veteran IT professional spend many sleepless nights. Currently, organizations are faced with the perceived burden that they will have to upgrade their systems to Windows Vista which will in turn start a flurry of concern around application compatibility and manageability. A common thread of this concern is maintaining user up time, reducing time spent on regression testing and even uninstalling existing software.

Many organizations will attempt to ease this burden by employing an ESD solution to automatically deploy their applications once the new OS has been installed. However, even with an automatic installation of an application, a vast array of Windows based applications conflict with each other.

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