by Chris Wolf | July 29, 2010 | 4 Comments
With today’s update to the XenDesktop 4 Platinum edition suite, Citrix became the first vendor to meet all requirements in the Burton Group Server Hosted Virtual Desktop evaluation criteria. The evaluation criteria was developed over a five month period. During that time, we worked with numerous early server-hosted virtual desktop (SHVD) adopters, as well as [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: cat10, citrix
by Chris Wolf | July 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
On Monday VMware announced the release of vSphere 4.1. VMware published a document describing the new features, and I also recommend checking out VMware CTO Steve Herrod’s post as well as Eric Siebert’s great vSphere 4.1 links post. I was planning to link to several good perspectives on the vSphere 4.1 release, but Siebert’s “links” [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Virtualization Tags: vmware
by Chris Wolf | July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
On Tuesday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows Azure Platform Appliance. Since Azure was first announced, I had been advising clients that an on-premise Azure offering was only a matter of time. With Tuesday’s announcement, Microsoft took a first step toward an Azure platform that is capable of [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Cloud Server Virtualization Virtualization Tags: WPC10
