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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By: Peter Bjork

Overview of this book

VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. "VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials" shows you how to deploy ThinApp packages in order to improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. Application virtualization improves the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. ThinApp eliminates application conflicts, reducing the need and cost of recoding and regression testing. In this book you will learn about how application virtualization works and how to deploy ThinApp packages. You will learn how to update and tweak ThinApp Projects before distribution. This book will then cover design and implementation considerations for future ThinApp projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Aaron Black is a senior product manager at VMware® in the End User Computing business unit. He is currently responsible for ThinApp, ThinApp Factory, and the Horizon integration with ThinApp. At VMware, he has worked in various positions in the field as a Systems Engineer, a stint in technical marketing, and now product management. His primary domain of knowledge revolves around all things that are applications related. At previous companies, he worked as a Systems Engineer with Citrix Systems, leading a technical corporate IT team at Sprint, and solutions design for a platinum reseller of VMware and Citrix products.

Adam Eckerle is a Solutions Architect at Network Storage, Inc in Indianapolis, IN, US (networkstorageinc.com). He has a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and has worked in Engineering and IT for more than 10 years. His primary focus is Datacenter Virtualization around the VMware vSphere platform. Other areas of focus are EMC storage platforms, Cisco UCS x86 server virtualization, and Vblock solutions. Among Adam’s industry certifications are Microsoft Certified IT Professional, VMware Certified Professional (4 & 5), and Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist.