Just one week after the release of Stratosphere 4.5.3 , the US startup Liquidware Labs announces version 4.5.4. In this build the company included an Application virtualisation Assessment feature clarifying that its interest goes beyond hardware virtualisation and VDI. With the new capability, Stratusphere 4.5.4 can build an application inventory by assessing physical desktops and laptops. The inventory includes the following information: Executable size System services installed and used per application Device drivers installed per application Total number of application users Average launch delay (application load time) Application usage (total and average time) Application resource requirements (total and average CPU, memory, IO) Basically Liquidware Labs is betting on the advent of application virtualisation as a mainstream technology, something that doesn’t seem to happen anytime soon . It’s not the only one
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Leostream announces today a new minor version for its Connection Broker that arrives over five months after the 6.2 release. In this update the company introduces a number of new features: support for the open source version of Xen (the one released by Xen.org) support for Sun Secure Global Desktop technology support for Ericom Blaze (which comes from the technology partnership signed in November 2009) a web client to access virtual desktops over HTTP/S connections control over the remote desktop protocol used by remote clients when multiple protocols are available a more granular set of roles and permissions that separate end users and administrators rights While every feature above is welcome, the most interesting one is the support for Sun SDG. Th e Oracle acquisition of Sun , and its declared intention to continue investing in the existing virtualisation portfolio, is translating into new opportunities for those vendors that are struggling to compete with VMware in its own domain. And competing against VMware View can be pretty hard these days.
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