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How to Doom a Cloud: Forget Networking

The number of clouds being built that are doomed to failure is staggering. Which is a shame because the builders are getting better by the day.Let me explain.At Citrix, we get the benefit of talking to a lot of people that are actively building clouds. They come in and talk to us about a variety of projects they are working on; from networking to VDI ...

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From Wow to How: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud

Thank you to those of you who joined us on Tuesday, November 15th for “From Wow to How 2: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud” webinar.  I was excited to hear Citrix and Microsoft experts discussing the role of public, personal and private clouds, the power of virtual desktops and ways to provide a single point of authentication for users to securely access ALL applications, ...

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Citrix Cloud Technology Ecosystem

Hello everyone,It's a great pleasure for me to invite you to our first webinar of the          Citrix Cloud Technology Ecosystemwebinar series. This will take place on November 3 at 10am PDT. The registration can be found at          https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/834897032.Since a couple of months we are working with a growing number of cloud vendors on this new inititative. We see that on top of the IaaS layer ...

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The Open vSwitch and Cloud – Visibility, SLAs and Compliance

Peter Phaal (yet another S. African contributor to virtualization) at InMon sent me a DM followup to my recent post on the strategic importance of the Open vSwitch project, and its inclusion in the forthcoming XenServer "Cowley" release. He makes a great point about the project's value in providing granular metrics on performance, from the host VIF, through the vSwitch, the physical NIC, ...

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The Cloud is Open – See How It Stacks Up

One of the most exciting things I'm looking forward to in the Citrix booth (#1219) at VMworld this week in San Francisco is the demonstration of OpenStack integrated cloud management and orchestration on XenServer, using XenCenter as the console.OpenStack is open source cloud computing management and orchestration software. It enables cloud providers and enterprises to build highly scalable, easily deployable cloud infrastructures. It includes ...

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Can a Chameleon Change its Spots?

I had lunch today with veteran virtualization blogger Alessandro Perilli, who was in the Seattle area for the Microsoft MVP Summit. Alessandro has repeatedly been the first to spot key industry trends. He is truly plugged-in, and brings to his analysis a level of technical insight and honesty that I find refreshing, and he doesn't sensationalize just to get clicks. ...

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