Altiris releases Software Virtualization Solution

Altiris, Inc, a pioneer of service-oriented management software, today announced the revolutionary software management capabilities of Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS) are now available. To demonstrate the power and elegant simplicity of SVS, Altiris has also made a free for personal use only license available for download from www.tucows.com and www.download.com.

SVS helps to reduce support costs and streamline software operations by providing faster, simpler and more manageable deployment of desktop applications. SVS helps eliminate application conflicts and delivers instant application activation, deactivation and reset capabilities.

Steve Morton, Altiris VP of product management and marketing, said, "In a unique move, we have made Software Virtualization Solution available free for personal use. We are confident users will immediately recognise the magnified benefits of SVS in a business computing environment once they see what SVS can do for software management on a smaller scale. Altiris helps significantly reduce software ownership costs and headaches by providing total software management like nobody else."

Unlike existing system virtualisation products, SVS abstracts the installation of an application's files and registry settings to allow the application to be installed and used without altering the base Windows operating system or conflicting with other applications. The solution also enables same-system, conflict-free hosting of multiple versions of the same application.

SVS is patents-pending technology that can be centrally managed using the Altiris architecture to help customers benefit from integrated Altiris service-oriented management solutions including inventory, packaging, deployment and delivery. However, SVS does not require the Altiris management console and is built with a flexible architecture to work with other desktop management tools such as Microsoft Systems Management Server. Altiris will soon provide a free SMS console snap-in for SVS administration.

SVS places applications and data into units that can be instantly managed based on business requirements. SVS only affects how application files and registry settings are installed and not how they are consumed or run, preserving normal application supportability, functionality and behaviour. Virtualising an application with SVS does not require application customisation, an application server or specialised training.

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Features added to SVS during a comprehensive beta cycle include:

* Multiple non-concurrent user support provides personalised access to virtual applications and data.
* The option to delegate SVS application control to end users.
* Remote access to virtualised data.

According to an Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Impact Brief, "With the release of the Altiris Software Virtualization Solution 2.0, Altiris has updated its deployment product set with functionality that will be welcomed by the Windows community. EMA believes that there is a very bright future for this product."*

Visit the growing SVS user community at www.altiris.com/juice/svs for user and analyst testimonials, tips and tricks, a support forum, utilities and sample virtual software packages.

Altiris Software Virtualization Solution is now available at an MSRP of lb18.90 per node with volume discounts available. SVS is available as a component of Altiris Total Management Suite and Altiris Client Management Suite Level 2. The free for personal use only license will be available on March 23 from www.download.com and on April 1 from www.tucows.com. For more information, or to contact an Altiris sales representative, please visit www.altiris.com/sales.