What Are Virtualized Applications?
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Virtualized applications let you run software without installing it directly on your device. From reducing compatibility issues to making updates easier, this approach is becoming a standard in IT.
Learn how it works and why it matters in our latest article by Roman Bitsiuk for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/vm
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@Oksana Isn't that a REMOTE application?
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Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:
Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!
I remember running full fledged engineering apps remotely in the 90s on IRIX and OpenVMS machines.
Have I posted about Kasm Workspaces here yet? Makes it really easy to provide remote apps like a Xen remoteapp environment, just easier, quicker, and open source.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:
Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!
I remember running full fledged engineering apps remotely in the 90s on IRIX and OpenVMS machines.
Have I posted about Kasm Workspaces here yet? Makes it really easy to provide remote apps like a Xen remoteapp environment, just easier, quicker, and open source.
Right? THis is SO normal. Microsoft was pushing these hard in 2003 with the Terminal Server at the time, too.
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@scottalanmiller Thanks for the pushback, Scott, all fair points!
The article ended up blending a few different concepts: remote/published app delivery, application virtualization, full virtual desktops (VDI), and even the underlying server virtualization and containerization layers.
What we actually described mostly fits remote app delivery (X11, Windows RDS/RemoteApp, Citrix/AVD): the app runs on a server and only the UI is sent to the client.
That’s different from application virtualization (MSIX app attach, ThinApp), where the app runs on the endpoint inside an isolated package with little or no traditional install. We’ll add a separate diagram to make that clear.
We’ll rework the article to separate these models properly, add examples, and fix the terminology.
Really appreciate the correction!
