by Chris Wolf | September 15, 2010 | 4 Comments
Once upon a time an IT user named Goldie Locks tried to access her company’s applications… I’ll spare you the rest of the analogy. Some devices are too big, others too small, and some are just right. Of course, “just right” often depends on the application being consumed. I talk a lot with clients about [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Cloud Tags: apple, citrix, cloud, microsoft, vmware
by Chris Wolf | August 31, 2010 | 17 Comments
Today at VMworld North America, VMware announced the availability of VMware View 4.5. The View 4.5 Premier release represents a significant milestone as it places VMware in very select company with Citrix as the only two vendors that offer enterprise-ready server-hosted virtual desktop (SHVD) solutions. For us to consider View 4.5 enterprise-ready, it had to [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | August 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
I have three sessions at this year’s VMworld North America conference and thought I would post them here in the event you’re interested in attending one of them. Each session will run two times, and the session descriptions, times, and locations are listed below. I hope to see you at the conference. The in-depth discussions [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: citrix, microsoft, vmware, vmworld
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 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
by Chris Wolf | May 20, 2010 | Comments Off
I recently confirmed all of the speakers for the server virtualization track at Catalyst North America, and am very excited about the participants. The conference runs the week of July 26th, with workshops on Monday and Tuesday and conference breakout sessions from Wednesday to Friday. Wednesday we’ll have a full day of cloud coverage, and [...]
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by Chris Wolf | May 19, 2010 | Comments Off
As a follow-up to my previous post on Synergy 2010, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the client virtualization-related announcements. Citrix made the following product announcements at the conference: Citrix and Wyse Accelerate Mainstream Adoption of Desktop Virtualization with Zero Client Technology Citrix XenClient Delivers Virtual Desktops “To Go”for Millions of Mobile [...]
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Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, citrixsynergy
by Chris Wolf | May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments
Last week’s Citrix Synergy conference, Citrix’s largest ever, offered quite a bit of innovation and news. I’d like to start with Burton Group news, and will follow up with posts on client virtualization and cloud. Last Wednesday at Synergy we unveiled the Burton Group Server-hosted virtual desktop evaluation criteria and presented product scorecards for Citrix [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, citrixsynergy
