We had a couple of great MF events in Orlando and in Vienna. Interest in SVS is very high. Also this time we had some of our SVS partners there, AppStream, Scense, and Fujitsu Siemens.

AppStream has a very cool product that is used to quickly and reliably do software delivery using file streaming. They have added SVS support so now they can easily stream SVS virtual software packages. Besides streaming they have some big value around license management.

Scense is coming out with a new user-based software delivery system. They have also integrated complete control of the SVS system into this product. Another big thing they have done is allow SVS to be used in a Citrix environment.

One of the more interesting new things that I saw being done with SVS was presented by Fujitsu Siemens. They are offering a service where they will pre-load new machines with specified applications in SVS format. There were two reasons that they gave for this. The first was that install times for the applications was much faster using SVS. The second was that they wanted to give the customer the ability to safely "turn off" applications on their systems without reinstalling the whole OS.