BMC Incorporates Thinstall Application Virtualization into BSM (formerly Marimba)
BMC Incorporates Thinstall Application Virtualization into BSM for Easy Management of Virtual Application Deployments and Upgrades in Windows Vista Environments
The alliance enables BMC and its resellers to directly offer Thinstall to customers using the BMC Configuration Management solution.
Thinstall, together with BMC, will address the IT management challenge of frequent system upgrades and software deployments while maintaining the stability and integrity of host systems and a secure end-user desktop environment.
Flash Demo I: Deployment using Marimba.
Demonstrates two methods of deploying Thinstall packages using Marimba with filetype associations and shortcuts
Flash Demo II: Using Marimba to perform byte-level differencing updates
Demonstrates using Thinstall with BMC Configuration Management (Marimba) to deploy applications to desktops and update them using byte-level differencing
Using a Business Service Management (BSM) approach, IT executives can meet the demand for fast, secure and conflict-free virtual application deployments, while supporting business services with consistent application delivery. The new partnership offers customers a greater range of deployment choices with increased flexibility and superior management of virtual applications in desktop environments.
Listen to podcast interview with Jeanne Morain, senior manager of configuration automation products at BMC Software, Inc., and Jonathan Clark, president and CTO, Thinstall
“With Thinstall’s client-less and server-less application virtualization solution now available through our TAP program, customers can manage virtual applications and system stability with the ease previously only possible with natively installed software,” said Paul Avenant, vice president, Service Management Business Unit, BMC Software. “Adding application virtualization to our BSM portfolio provides organizations with a unified way to deliver applications to reduce downtime, errors, and migration impact saving customers time, money and resources in keeping user systems up-to-date in an increasingly virtual environment.”
Thinstall complements BMC’s offering to maximize desktop efficiency and performance, as well as minimize operational and administrative costs. By virtualizing applications, sending them to the desktop in a single EXE file, and allowing SxS applications to be deployed without conflict, Thinstall is providing a reliable and secure desktop infrastructure. BMC and Thinstall as a combined solution allows a data center to deploy and manage applications in a consolidated infrastructure across an enterprise, including remote workers, and still support business services with deployment and support for the application operations in .NET, WindowsÒ and Vista environments.
BMC is recognized as the leader in Business Service Management providing solutions that span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. BMC solutions are used by more than 15,000 customers worldwide.
