Thinstall, an application virtualization solution provider, today announced that it has joined the SAP Enterprise Services Community Advisory Group (CAG) for Virtualization. The group was formed in response to customer demand for solutions to implement virtualization strategies.

SAP has selected members to contributed use cases and best practices, collaborating on a governance model that will allow SAP applications to be supported by virtual machines. Thinstall joins member companies Cisco, EMC, Intel, NetApp, Novell, Virtual Iron and VMware in the newly-formed advisory group.

Michael Rose, associate research analyst, Enterprise Virtualization Software at IDC, says that Thinstall's application virtualization solution is "an important contribution in SAP's cross-industry group, and will help develop standards for compatible, interfacing system solutions for the future market."

Thinstall is a client-less, server-less application virtualization solution that allows applications to be packaged into simple EXE files that run in user-mode, isolated from the host PC, without installation or changes to the local desktop's registry and file system. Thinstall simplifies the application process by eliminating the need for a pre-installed client and allows the applications to run securely and directly from any shared drive with no infrastructure enhancements.

According to Henrik Rosendahl, executive vice president of Thinstall, "Customers need solutions to deal with the increasing costs of application deployment and secure desktop management. This pressure combined with the demand for reduced IT infrastructure costs while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery make virtualization best practices vital for today's business."

Posted by David Marshall on April 24, 2007 04:44 PM