AppSense (tonight's) talk

Fri May 21 11:04:25 PDT 2010

It was a good talk even though it was market speak and widoze.  They take an 
interesting approach to virtualization by storing the users environment on a 
per application basis and restoring it when the app is started again by the 
user.  X windows and window managers do something similar with dot files.  So 
you could get similar functionality with NFS mounting home directories.  I got 
  the feeling though that their tools did a better job of it.  And as Guy 
mentioned at the talk the centralized administration tools allowed it to scale 
to much larger environment.

Their reporting tools looked useful.  I would be slick to have a tool that 
could show you how much cpu time an app was using across a group of hosts.  I 
know the information is there with mrtg, cacti, top, etc. But not with a 
simple to use interface.

RLH