We specialize on understanding and enhancing leading virtualization and cloud-based solutions on the marketplace.

Our own software solutions portfolio roots back to several free utilities and applications with commerical software offering from Gridmetric building on these popular free titles and years of in-depth knowledge of the subject matter.

Our customer base includes local and global players in banking, chemical, insurance, IT, pharmaceutical, transportation and many other industries as well as in public sector - all sharing one thing in common: a trust to Gridmetric's expertise in virtualization.

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Product updates

All updates to licensed products are downloadable from Gridmetric Customer Portal

2010-07-16 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.1.0 has been released

This release marks the first bigger update to Application Virtualization Explorer product. New features include more increased support for virtual environment customization for applications published from the package as well as number of usability enhancements. Upgrading is recommended for all customers and trial evaluators.

2010-05-21 : Lib-V 1.3.1 has been released

This update fixes issues few issues in updating the package's contents. Upgrading is recommended to all Lib-V R/W edition customers.

2010-05-15 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.0.1 has been released

This release addresses issues with updating package's internal files. Upgrading is recommended for all customers and trial evaluators.

2010-05-06 : Announcing Application Virtualization Explorer Professional 2.0

Available today, Application Virtualization Explorer Professional 2.0 introduces a new standard in easyness and intuitiveness of App-V package editing.

Designed as full GUI, full package, editor - including support for all App-V package files - AVE Professional will streamline the work and processes of all App-V administrators and virtual application packagers. AVE will support viewing, editing and saving of all past and present App-V package formats and includes capability to examine App-V Client cached settings file (PKG file) as a industry-first.

Customers can obtain AVE through the product pages at http://www.gridmetric.com/products/ave.html.

2010-03-22 : Announcing full App-V 4.6 support in SFT Encoder 2.0

Together with upgraded Lib-V SFT engine, Gridmetric is proud to present first ever major version upgrade to its premiere App-V package encoding and processing product, SFT Encoder. This version adds full and unconditional support for processing packages from and to latest version of Microsoft App-V 4.6. SFT Encoder is also now fully supported in both 32-bit and 64-bit environments.

In addition to 4.6 format support, SFT Encoder 2.0 adds several new processing directives for template based processing, further strenghting the goal of becoming the most capable encoding tool for ISVs and packagers interested in generating custom-made App-V packages. New version of SFT Encoder also fixes number of bugs, generating industry's most compliant App-V packages second only to Microsoft Sequencer!

Existing customers with active support and maintenance period can download release 2.0 from the Customer Portal. Old and new evaluators can download new trial version from the website, now with less restrictive set of limitations than before.

2010-03-22 : Announcing full App-V 4.6 support in Lib-V 1.3

Gridmetric is proud to announce full support for App-V 4.6 SFT files with Lib-V release 1.3.0, together with full 64-bit environment support.

This release also fixes number of issues in virtual registry (VREG) and virtual filesystem (VFS) handling as well as further increasing compliance with all revisions of SFT fileformat, making the latest Lib-V most complete and conforming SFT decoding/encoding engine commercially available.

Upgrading to 1.3.0 is strongly recommended for all existing customers.

2010-03-01 : Lib-V 1.2.1 has been released

This update fixes issues with VFS entry attributes. Upgrading is recommended for Lib-V R/W edition customers.

2010-02-15 : SFT Encoder 1.2.2 has been released

This release fixes several issues in SFT Encoder and adds further support for running in x64 systems by including separate installers for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Upgrading is recommended for all customers and trial evaluators.

News in brief

2010-05-06 New product launched

Gridmetric is proud to announce immediate availability of new Application Virtualization Explorer Professional -product!

AVE will continue on the successful path of SFT Explorer, which was previously available as free-of-charge utility for Softgrid professionals.


2010-02-11 SFT Encoder editions change

To better suit the needs of our customers, SFT Encoder version selelection has been realigned and as a result Professional Edition has been retired.

This change is effective immediately and as a result only Enterprise Edition with full and unrestriced functionality set or Server Edition as alternative licensing model for Enterprise, will be available to be purchased.

Current customers of SFT Encoder Professional Edition will be contacted individually to provide guidance on migration path to Enterprise Edition.


2009-11-26 Gridmetric Oy launches a new website

We hope that the new site will serve you even better than before, especially with new RSS feed that is available for tracking of new software releases.