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- Cloud Courting: Round One
- VMware and Citrix want to be your cloud infrastructure provider. The competing virtual infrastructure makers announced dueling cloud initiatives this week aimed at providing xSPs with simple to deploy and buy cloud computing platforms that come from very different angles and may serve to bifurcate the mid to small market...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Microsoft: It's time to consummate the marriage with Citrix already
- The relationship between Microsoft and Citrix is much like that of a man who has been serially dating the same woman for 15 years, but never seems to be able to consummate the deal. He's afraid of commitment, or perhaps like that old expression goes, why...
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with QumranetKVM is solid and cleanA lot of it is marketing, but the technology is excellent and can dominate the virtual desktop. The issue comes down to VDI already being a cost effective product compared to stand alone desktops and...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- News to know: iPhone 3G; MobileMe; Office 14; Home Server fix
- First, the non-Apple news. (Scroll down for major dose of WWDC 2008 links.) Mary Jo Foley: New proof: Office 14 slated for 2009 Are all Microsoft and Apple sync services created equal? SharePoint gets an open-source podcasting add-on Final...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Citrix integrates security appliance with XenDesktop
- Citrix has integrated one of its security products with its recently released XenDesktop virtual desktop solution. The latest incarnation of Citrix's Access Gateway appliance, version 1.8, will allow companies to deliver virtual desktops to users based on identity, location and security status. The Ft...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- VMware, Sun's Ray team partner on VDI
- I was so enmeshed in the XenDesktop happenings at Citrix Synergy last week that I paid little notice to virtualization market leader VMware, which made some significant VDI-related announcements of it own. As Citrix's XenDesktop team announced deals with thin client makers HP and Wyse, VMware announced...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Wyse, HP hope XenDesktop will drive thin client sales
- Wyse, HP hope XenDesktop will drive thin client salesHP/Neoware falloutHP bought the Neoware thin client line and seems to be ready to ditch the Neolinux OS. It sounds to me that HP has been drinking at the Micro$oft Kool-aid stand. We chose Neoware for the linux os. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- News to know: Hactivists; XO-2 laptop; HP; Virtualization
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites Over 1.5 million pages affected by the recent SQL injection attacks DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards Revealed Ryan Naraine: Secunia finds 'highly critical' Foxit Reader Flaw Are you wary of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Microsoft HyperV RC1 available for testing
- Microsoft announced availability of release candidate 1 of its Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor Tuesday. The add-on for Windows Server 2008 is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V and it will be available via Windows Update beginning on May 27, Microsoft said. The first release candidate, referred to as...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- ISVs: XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer no panacea for IT managers
- ISVs: XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer no panacea for IT managersDesktop Virtualizaton is SalvationIf you have lobied users for thin clint then you know that once a PC user has learned to creat a shortcut he/she will not be happy with it. Hence, I disagree with the author. Desktop Virtualization is...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer benefits but no panacea for IT managers
- I am always skeptical about new technologies that "threaten" to transform the traditional PC desktop. In my 20 years following the PC industry, I've seen them all – server-based models, thin clients, application streaming technologies, hosted ASP and newer software-as-a-service models, even Linux. I still use a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Wyse, HP hope XenDesktop will drive thin client sales
- Wyse and HP have launched new lines of thin clients that are optimized for Citrix's XenDesktop and the virtualized desktop. Citrix's much anticipated XenDesktop, which will compete against VMware's VDI technology as well as Qumranet's KVM-based desktop virtualization solution SolidICE, was officially introduced to the market here...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Citrix Synergy Announcements
- Today is the first day of Citrix's Synergy Conference and the company has come out with a gaggle of announcements. (As an aside, do announcements come in gaggles, coveys, pods, or packs?) The centerpiece is Citrix's announcement that XenDesktop is now available. Another important announcement is that Citrix now is...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- HP Client Virtualization Announcement
- Tad Bodeman of HP's remote client solutions group provided a broad "memory dump" of today's HP client virtualization announcementt. As with my last post on this topic, HP and Desktop Virtualization, there's simply too much here for me to address each portion of the announcement separately. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor's demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine KVM technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors' imaginations. "There's no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- News to know: Microhoo; Adobe; MacBook Air; OLPC; RIAA
- Notable headlines: Microsoft: We'll raise our bid for Yahoo, but can't make up our mind yet. Techmeme Jason O'Grady: Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air Ryan Stewart: Adobe Open Screen Project Dan Farber: IBM...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Qumranet's SolidICE ships as Citrix XenDesktop debut nears
- Qumranet's SolidICE ships as Citrix XenDesktop debut nearsIt's what's for dinnerBeef!Just when you thought VM couldn't get any more sizzle, here comes another player and a meaty one at that.Waiting for my SolidICE eval copy
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Qumranet's SolidICE ships as Citrix XenDesktop debut nears
- KVM sponsor Qumranet launched its long awaited desktop virtualization solution today, just weeks before rival Citrix launches its own XenDesktop solution. The Sunnyvale, calif. company announced on April 30 the release of Solid ICE Independent Computing Environment, a hosted desktop virtualization product that promises desktop-like performance with...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
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