Aiming to help its customers better provision, deploy
and update desktop environments, virtualisation leader VMware has
acquired Thinstall and Foedus.
VMware believes that the business benefit to customers from its
buys will be significantly decreased time to reach the value of a
software application and also
reduced overhead of
potentially costly integrations.
Thinstall works to decouple applications from underlying
operating systems in order to improve isolation and portability for
applications across desktop environments. The firm’s agentless
approach to
application virtualisation is designed to enable the rapid,
secure and cost effective delivery of software applications to
desktops.
Agentless application virtualisation, pioneered by Thinstall,
requires no pre-installed software on physical or virtual PCs and
no new deployment infrastructure or management tools.
Thinstall’s architecture integrates
into existing application management systems to deliver virtualised
applications across a variety of operating system versions (NT,
2000, XP, Vista) and enables applications to move with users as
needed.
“Delivering software applications to an organisation’s workforce
is the single largest cost of desktop administration today,” said
Jeff Jennings, vice president of desktop products and solutions at
VMware. “Thinstall’s third generation solution offers the best
technological approach in the market for application
virtualisation, providing faster, easier and more secure delivery
of software applications to desktop-based workforces. The addition
of Thinstall to our desktop virtualisation portfolio will help us
to better deliver cost-effective and more flexible tools for
quickly and securely provisioning desktops.”
Foedus, is a provider of application and desktop virtualisation
technologies and services and VMware intends to leverage Foedus’s
expertise to help its partners expand their virtualisation services
business.