{"id":113,"date":"2008-08-04T23:37:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T06:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infraops.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/04\/4sysops-review-on-altiris-svs-professional-streaming-system\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T21:00:42","slug":"4sysops-review-on-altiris-svs-professional-streaming-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/4sysops-review-on-altiris-svs-professional-streaming-system\/","title":{"rendered":"4Sysops review on Altiris SVS Professional Streaming System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Symantec&#8217;s purchase of AppStream, the application virtualization story is starting to get more complicated. If you&#8217;re a long time SoftGrid\/App-V fan, you should read this story. It sounds a lot like the old days. As Microsoft&#8217;s product begins to retreat back to the machine-centric model, Symantec&#8217;s AppStream duplicates some of classic SoftGrid&#8217;s best (IMO) features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Streaming of apps (not just virtual &#8211; &#8220;conventional&#8221; apps too!)<\/li>\n<li>License tracking and enforcement, including the making of &#8220;trial&#8221; licenses &#8211; that&#8217;s cool.<\/li>\n<li>Deep reporting &#8211; something that SoftGrid does, but never went far enough, and seems to be dying on the vine and being absorbed into Asset Intelligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Definitely worth looking at, if only to keep the heat on App-V. If you&#8217;re listening, Redmond, don&#8217;t abandon the user-centric model that you got when you purchased SoftGrid. The application isolation features are not the compelling part of the Optimized Desktop story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>p.s. Kudos to the 4Sysops crew for excellent articles, as always.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4sysops.com\/archives\/review-symantec-altiris-svs-professional-streaming-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">4sysops &#8211; Review: Symantec Altiris SVS Professional Streaming System<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Symantec offers a more professional way to deploy such virtualized apps: the Altiris Streaming System. Streaming means that only those parts of an application that are actually required to run the functions accessed by the user are transmitted to the client.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Symantec&#8217;s purchase of AppStream, the application virtualization story is starting to get more complicated. If you&#8217;re a long time SoftGrid\/App-V fan, you should read this story. It sounds a lot like the old days. 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