Tag: virtualization

Benchmarking Microsoft Office’s PowerPoint Application Packages: Microsoft App-V Vs. Symantec Workspace Virtualization

Introduction Benchmarking virtualization products is an addictive game. Below we use SpyStudio to compare how long it takes to load a 21 slides PowertPoint presentation, with text and graphics, in three environments: Microsoft App-V 5 (MNT), Symantec Workspace Virtualization 6.4.1603, and natively. We measure the time elapsed until the slides show up on the GUI. […]

Cloud Development: the dictatorship of the mainstream services’ APIs

You can reverse engineer binary applications but you cannot reverse engineer the cloud. When Google deprecates a web service, Facebook eliminates an API, or Twitter imposes tougher API restrictions, all dependant services fall like dominoes. The weakest link in the chain is the cloud services that you can’t run or port anywhere: we no longer […]