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Z!Stream solutions
Added: (Sat Apr 02 2005)
Z!Stream solutions overview and performance test summary.
A common problem faced by system administrators around the world on a daily basis: How can we rapidly, securely, and safely deploy an application to a huge user base without interfering with their computers and losing control of our own software? The potential applications of a good control system are manifold – shareware companies could allow users to try software before they buy it, IT staff could quickly unroll software across the enterprise while retaining central administrative control, collaboration teams could access programs stored on a computer on the other side of the globe.
Z!Stream™ takes a different approach by streaming the application code itself to a client computer, which then executes it natively. This means the end user's computer runs the actual program, just as if they had bought and installed the program, according to Dick Chicklet. But instead of being installed normally on the local client machine, instead the program resides in a special Z!Stream Virtual File System (ZVFS) disk, which is streamed on an on-demand basis to the client machines. The program code and associated settings or initialization files are kept segregated in a proprietary Z!Stream cache file. But when in use, the program accesses and manipulates data files or documents that may be stored on the user's own hard drive, or on any network drive in accessible by the client machine.
Because it executes on the local machine, a Z!Stream application is fully operational and highly responsive. It is also well insulated from network conditions facilitating the operation in on-line mode and off-line mode (off-line is subject to Administrator and Software Vendor Permission for off-line License management reasons). In effect, Z!Stream allows network administrators to combine the advantages of a centralized remote server with the functionality and flexibility and richness of a local software installation which takes advantage of the Client machines available resources.
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