Presentation by Nick Johnson and Tony Austwick of Software2 given to the Eduserv Virtualisation Focus Group on 21 March 2012

1. Application Deployment Solutions
for the Education Sector
Software2
Nick Johnson
Tony Austwick

2. Company Background
 S2 Distribution
 Application Jukebox Distributor to UK Public Sector
 S2 Services
 Services to vendors, resellers and service providers
 UK’s first student rental AppStore

6. Application Deployment Challenges
 Supporting a mobile base
 Campus, Halls, Students own laptops, Home
 Delivering “On Demand” software applications
 Reducing deployment time and effort
 High cost of supporting the desktop environment
 Unique demanding environment
 100’s Apps
 1,000’s Devices
 10,000’s of users

7. Virtualised Application Delivery
 WAN/LAN deployment of Windows Desktop Application
 Agile application deployment methodology
 Self healing software applications
 Zero touch client installations
 Offline access
 Minimise conflicts

8. Application Jukebox
 Developed by Numecent in California
 Earliest & broadest set of patents in the market
 3rd Generation Product
 Software2 UK Education Distributor

9. ”Blew my mind”
”Streaming gets a new
face with cloudpaging”
”Pure freaking magic”
“As fast as the real thing,
”Makes any app a Web app” even over 3G”
“BLOWN AWAY
could change the entire “magic is the term to describe this”
software industry”

10. Cloudify any native Windows software – 100%
Any software, even the OS itself – we excel in BIG APPS
Deliver it 20x-100x faster than downloads
And do so encrypted and under License Control
Execute at native speeds without install – even offline
Virtualised – keep users happy, agile and without IT hassles

11. Application Jukebox
 Application Jukebox Player
 Application Player
 Application Jukebox Portal
 Web portal engine
 User management
 Integration to financial transaction systems
 Application Jukebox Server
 Control and deliver applications
 License Management

12. Isolated
Virtualisation

13. Integrated
Virtualisation

14. Configurable
Virtualisation

15. Off-line
Access

16. AJ Competitive Differentiators
 Virtualise ANY Windows Application
 Applications perform as if locally installed
 Configurable Virtualisation
 Combination of Isolated and Integrated virtualisation
 Push and Pull application deployment
 Web delivery of applications
 Flexible license management and reporting

17. Benefits
 Deliver Any Windows Application
 Streamline Physical and VDI images
 Access Anywhere
 Campus, Halls, Students own laptops, Home
 Reduce License costs
 Increase Asset flexibility
 Remove dedicated IT labs
 Anytime upgrades and patching
 Fast efficient infrastructure with no performance compromise
 Improve Student Experience

18. Kingston University
 Primarily Engineering Applications
 Extended POC
 Didn’t run upgrades/patches once term started
 Increased Asset flexibility
 Hope to remove some dedication labs

19. University of Surrey
 10-100-10 strategic initiative
 Jukebox first central project - Improve Student Experience
 Phase 1 – All labs and classrooms
 Phase 2 – Staff
 Phase 3 – Student personal machines

20. University of Surrey
 Any Windows App to Any Machine
 Halved build time during exam time
 More informed software licence purchasing decisions
 Improved Student IT experience
 Everything works better with far fewer problems and callouts!