Benefits of Application Virtualization
- Allows applications to run in environments that do not suit the native application:
- e.g. Wine allows Microsoft Windows applications to run on Linux.
- e.g. CDE, a lightweight application virtualization, allows linux applications to run in a distribution agnostic way.
- May protect the operating system and other applications from poorly written or buggy code and in some cases provide memory protection and IDE style debugging features.
- Uses fewer resources than a separate virtual machine.
- Run applications that are not written correctly, for example applications that try to store user data in a read-only system-owned location.
- Run incompatible applications side-by-side, at the same time and with minimal regression testing against one another.
- Reduce system integration and administration costs by maintaining a common software baseline across multiple computers in an organization.
- Implement the security principle of least privilege by removing the requirement for end-users to have Administrator privileges in order to run poorly written applications.
- Simplified operating system migrations.
- Accelerated application deployment, through on-demand application streaming.
- Improved security, by isolating applications from the operating system.
- Enterprises can easily track license usage. Application usage history can then be used to save on license costs.
- Fast application provisioning to the desktop based upon user's roaming profile.
- Allows applications to be copied to portable media and then imported to client computers without need of installing them, so called Portable software.
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