Results for: VMware does NOT compete with Citrix
This just in! PCoIP is the cure to cancer, solution to world hunger, makes you look 20 years younger!!
Yesterday, Sumit Dhawan, the head honco of the Citrix Receiver and End Users Services Group presented at the Gartner Catalyst Conference along with Vittorio Viarengo, Vice President of End-User Computing for VMware in a session moderated by Gartner’s Chris Wolf entitled “Protocol Wars: What Matters”. Before I get to how PCoIP cured cancer and won the world cup, I wanted to reiterate the premise of ...
Citrix declares war on Amazon. Excuse me??
As the sun set on the “big day” announcement of our acquisition of cloud.com, I spent a little time eagerly reading and digesting the plethora of articles and blog posts that had been written to cover the breaking news.As I expected, much of the reaction from analysts and bloggers alike was extremely positive. There were tons of articles like this one from ZDnet that showed most folks really ...
Toward Trusted Infrastructure for the Cloud Era
At Synergy 2011 I made the case that the biggest barrier to the adoption of service-provider offered cloud services is the (understandable) lack of trust on the part of enterprise customers. Clouds are viewed as risky, and potentially insecure, at a time of rising cyber-crime, and there is also the issue of reliability. Here's a quick summary:I challenged the perception that enterprises are more vulnerable ...
Maddening
Brian is a smart chap, but he doesn't always get it. In a recent posting: Microsoft to Quest in 2009: "A winning partnership." Microsoft to Quest in 2010: "Que-who?" he betrays a lack of understanding of the Citrix / Microsoft partnership, and draws incorrect conclusions as a result. So let's try again: Citrix does not compete with Microsoft.For starters, the statement that ...
Pizza and Clouds – Reloaded
In a recent post I argued that enterprise IT's distrust of service provider Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is often based on lack of understanding. In particular the unfamiliar nature of the API-centric, services-based architecture of IaaS, by comparison with the concrete feeds+speeds of today's physical IT world, leaves many IT Pros cold. Of late I've found myself using an analogy of buying Pizza ...
VMware does NOT compete with Citrix
There's an ongoing kerfuffle in the press about VMware's treatment of partners and competitors at VMworld. It all started last year when VMware restricted Citrix and Microsoft to a 10x10 showfloor booth each, because they claimed our products compete with theirs. Even as a sponsor of the event, and a VMware partner, Citrix was treated as a third class citizen. But ...
VMware Project Redwood = Dead Wood?
It's widely acknowledged that the combined ingenuity of the Amazon Web Service team and the creative and fast-moving Xen community led to the creation of the first Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud - Amazon EC2 - as far back as 2006. So it has been interesting to see VMware attempt to co-opt the concept and turn a profound capability that ...
Best Hypervisor for VDI? Only Two Make the Cut
When the Xen Project took flight and the community took up the challenge of developing the industry's most scalable, secure, and high performance type 1 hypervisor, I got to see for myself the tremendous benefits of community based development - complete freedom to innovate and to openly discuss any issue, from architecture to security, performance and best coding practice. Since every line of code ...
It takes more than a protocol to deliver the best possible experience
Today we announced another key addition to our portfolio of HDX technologies within XenDesktop, enabling high definition virtual desktops - HDX 3D.Before we get into too much detail, in my experience it's always sensible and logical to consider the broader context to gain perspective and not get lost in the marketing. For me this is about extending our leadership position in delivering user experience that ...
Xen and the art of Perfect Timing
I've spent the last day or so at Cannes meeting channel partners and customers who have been responding to the announcement that Citrix has declared XenServer virtual infrastructure to be absolutely free, and our additional annoucements of our powerful value-added virtualization management capabilities in Citrix Essentials for XenServer and partnership with Microsoft to offer Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V.The response has been fantastic, and almost overwhelming. Across the board, customers, analysts and ...