Quoting Juice

The Butler Group, a UK-based IT Analysis and Research organization, recently released a report focusing on Altiris' Software Virtualization Solution.

If you're looking for an independent report to print out and innocently leave on your IT manager's desk, this might do the trick.

Here's a snippet: "Butler Group considers SVS an extremely useful product that will provide organisations considering migrating to Windows Vista with a cost-effective solution to managing the process."

Abstract

Altiris Software Virtualisation Solution (SVS) v2.0 is a simple and easy approach to virtualising desktop applications in a Windows environment. Currently IT departments struggle with some aspects of desktop application management, mainly the resolution of Dynamic Link Library (DLL) conflicts, which result in applications failing because a newer and not compatible DLL has been installed as part of another application.

Butler Group considers the simple filter driver approach to enabling applications to be virtualised rather than modify the infrastructure, so that it is capable of executing virtual applications, which represents a significant step in driving the wider adoption of application virtualisation. However, Altiris SVS currently does not support thin client applications or server-based applications; Altiris has stated these will be in the next major release of SVS scheduled for mid 2007. Altiris considers the forthcoming release of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 to be a catalyst for wider adoption of application virtualisation: SVS provides a simple and easy-to-use interface that can greatly reduce the management time involved in desktop operating systems or application migrations.

PDF version available here.