Start-up Trigence last week announced that its application virtualization software, which can run in VMware virtual machine environments, now runs on Solaris.

Trigence virtualizes applications across servers just like VMware virtualizes physical servers. Using server virtualization software, an IT manager can carve up an x86 server’s processors into individual computing units - or “virtual machines” - to allow multiple copies of Windows or Linux to run simultaneously on the same Intel server, thus optimizing workloads.

Trigence Application Environment (AE) software containerizes applications so they can be more easily deployed and redeployed. With Trigence AE, IT managers can discover, provision, redeploy, monitor, scale and move multiple Unix and Linux applications across existing servers and data centers as needed.

Applications are hard to manage and redeploy because they are bolted to the infrastructure. The traditional server model creates islands - once an application is installed on an operating system, it becomes difficult to move or redeploy elsewhere. If you need to upgrade a system or add more virtual machines, redeploying applications on those new VMs is unwieldy.

By placing an application’s full file stack into a secure, thin software container, Trigence AE turns the application into a highly portable and manageable object, separate from the underlying server and infrastructure. As a result, it can be clicked, dragged and dropped from one production server to another.
 
The new version of Trigence AE 2.2 will support Sun’s Solaris. It will be available early next year. Both Sun and Trigence will market Trigence AE 2.2 to Solaris 9 and 10 customers.

Trigence AE pricing is a combination of licensing and subscription that stars at $1,000 per server for less than 100 servers.