Quick Clicks: Application Virtualization Bake-Off

Thinstall is the only agentless application virtualization solution on the market. Thinstall does not use kernels or agents to manage applications on remote desktops. Instead, it embeds a 400K file into an application and packages it for delivery. No additional agent or client management software is installed.

Symantec's Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS) Professional combines AppStream's software to add streaming capabilities to SVS.

Together, the two technologies provide a powerful SaaS delivery system that offers granular control over applications. Both technologies complement each other but can also work separately.

Citrix Systems provides an end-to-end solution to application virtualization. The Citrix Presentation Server is the old boy on the block as far as providing application virtualization. For more than a decade, Presentation Server has been providing application access in presentation mode. The technology has been an extremely successful model for the company.

Now that the space is evolving and expanding to service disconnected users, Citrix added a kernel mode component to its Presentation Server.