Atlantis Blog Reprise

Hello Everyone, welcome to the new Atlantis Blog, its grown up, mission critical and carrier grade.

Since Early 2007 we've re-invented our company to focus on the Fortune 500 Enterprise IT market. As a result we taken all the innovation we'd created to enable SAAS and re-purposed it to to enable Enterprise IT to virtualize all their application and desktops infrastructure centrally and deliver it where ever it needs to be consumed.

Our technology is pretty interesting - it provides virtualization at 3 levels -

• Machine Partitioning - Creating multiple Virtual Machines through the use of the VMware Hypervisor
• OS Partitioning - Allowing OS resources to be intelligently multiplexed to application workloads on demand.
  
• Application Sandboxing - Applications themselves run in locked down virtual containers that can intelligently redirect Application resources as well as state changes to persist in a sandbox rather than edit or change the underlying Operating System.

Put these three levels of virtualization together and you gain the ability to instantiate desktops and applications by combining applications, Operating System Images and End user data at run time (Just in Time). This means that you can have a single desktop os image (say Windows XP) and bind that to different applications (MS office for one user group and SAP for another) at runtime when the user connects to the virtual infrastructure.

Differentiate this from the current State of Art in VDI - a template OS image with baked in applications for each use case which is physically cloned for every end user. With Atlantis Unity you can create a unique desktop by bringing together a common desktop OS image, end user apps and storage (all based on a user profile stored in AD) in real-time.

The same dynamic desktop and virtual application can be delivered as a published desktop or application via Terminal Services or as Streamed applications that can be cached for offline use on the end user's desktop.

More posts to follow on our technology, but at this time, I'd like to emphasize the single biggest benefit we deliver is that we allow all of an Enterprises desktop and applications to migrate to the data center where it can be easily and securely managed without disrupting the end users experience. And that is no simple feat.