VMware Brings Link and Sync to ThinApp

By Jeff Feinman

June 10, 2008 —  VMware has updated two of its desktop products to bring easier communication and scalability to virtualized applications.

The company released today ThinApp 4.0, an application virtualization product that lets customers run multiple versions of applications on any Windows operating system.

ThinApp 4.0 brings Application Link, which is a new feature that adds the ability to have virtualized applications communicate with one another.

Jerry Chen, senior director of enterprise desktops for VMware, said that Application Link allows users to virtualize applications independently and then connect them at a later time.

Another main feature in ThinApp 4.0 is Application Sync, which lets users utilize a Web server to remotely update applications. “If someone is writing a virtualized version of Firefox 2.0 on their laptop,” Chen said, “and I want to post a new version of Firefox 2.1 and get that update to them, all I need to do is put the application on a Web server, and the virtualized application on the laptop will detect there has been a change and synchronize the differences.”

VMware has also updated Virtual Desktop Manager, a tool that Chen said gives IT administrators the ability to centralize a PC-like environment in their data center. Version 2.1 of the product brings multimedia redirection and the ability to stream video or graphics to a PC remotely. The tool also has increased scalability, being able to go to thousands of virtual desktops in a single cluster, Chen said.


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