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VALOGIX® Inventory Planner V8 Edition utilizes the latest technology to insure speed, efficiency and reliability. Valogix's unique deployment allows for fast, reliable implementations regardless of hardware and the operating environment. It also provides additional security of critical data. It can be used on-premise or in a hosted environment.

VALOGIX Inventory Planner V8 is browser-based and is distributed as a virtual machine, ready to run in VMWare Server. We include a client application for importing data into V8. It interfaces with either a host system, an Excel workbook, existing Valogix database or any other ODBC source.

Valogix Cloud Computing Services is provided by a hosting partner chosen by Valogix for their capabilities, high uptime and reliability. You are provided with a highly secure environment without worrying about the hardware and other infrastructure requirements.

Background on Virtualization

Application virtualization is a generic term that describes software technologies that improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. A fully virtualized application is not installed in the traditional sense, although it is still executed as if it is. The application is fooled at runtime into believing that it is directly interfacing with the original operating system and all the resources managed by it, when in reality it is not. In this context, the term "virtualization" refers to the artifact being encapsulated (application), which is quite different to its meaning in hardware virtualization, where it refers to the artifact being abstracted (physical hardware).

A virtual appliance is not a virtual machine, but rather a software image containing a software stack designed to run inside a virtual machine. Like a physical machine, a virtual machine is merely a platform for running an operating system environment and by itself does not contain application software. Furthermore, in contrast to the multi-tenancy approaches to SaaS, a virtual appliance can also be deployed on-premises for customers that need local network access to the running application, or have security requirements that a third-party hosting model does not meet. The underlying virtualization technology also allows for rapid movement of virtual appliances instances between physical execution environments. Traditional approaches to SaaS fix the application in place on the hosted infrastructure

A Virtual Image can be thought of as a complete, self-contained environment. For example, it is like having your family, home and car in a protective bubble. You need only one thing and that is a link to the outside.

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