by Chris Wolf | September 8, 2011 | 4 Comments
In a recent Gartner field search study, two early internal IaaS cloud adopters noted that if Amazon was the benchmark by which they are measured in terms of cost, then they had to make tough decisions regarding best-of-breed vs. good enough. In particular, the two clients cited whether deploying a third party virtual switch (i.e., [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: citrix, microsoft, vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | September 6, 2011 | 7 Comments
VMware recorded a pretty humorous video that was unveiled at this week’s VMworld North America conference. A few minutes into the music video, VMware folks are literally shown dancing on Citrix’s doorstep (outside the Citrix office in Santa Clara). While this could be taken as a simple competitive prank, multiple conversations I’ve had with VMware’s [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | May 10, 2011 | Comments Off
The speaker line-up for Catalyst 2011’s user-centric computing track has been finalized and I wanted to take a moment to share it with you. A prominent CTO has called Catalyst “the most intellectual conference in all of IT,” and if you haven’t attended Catalyst before, there are plenty of great reasons to get there this [...]
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Category: Client Virtualization Virtualization Tags: citrix, quest, vmware
by Chris Wolf | November 10, 2010 | 9 Comments
Today EMC’s Chad Sakac blogged about a significant update to Oracle’s support policy for VMware ESX environments – Oracle no longer explicitly excludes Oracle RAC from being virtualized. It should also be noted that Oracle’s support is limited to “issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Virtualization Tags: amazon, citrix, microsoft, oracle, vmware
by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | 10 Comments
Last week I traveled through various parts of Europe, while stopping for two days in Copenhagen for VMworld Europe. With eight days of travel, I thought it would be a good opportunity to test the feasibility of working from a server-hosted virtual desktop while traveling abroad. I run both Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 SP1 and VMware [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | Comments Off
This post is the second in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” The first PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX WAN performance test in my experiment began at Newark airport. I’m not one to spend more time than absolutely necessary in an airport, but I still gave myself plenty of extra time to conduct and record [...]
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Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware
by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | Comments Off
This post is the third in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” After arriving at my hotel in Munich, I was ready to again compare PCoIP and ICA/HDX performance. When I connected to my lab, I was surprised that latency from Germany was actually less than with my AT&T 3G connection in the [...]
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Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware
by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | Comments Off
This post is the fourth in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” Last Wednesday I flew from Copenhagen to Stockholm, and then drove with my Gartner colleagues to a hotel in Gavle, Sweden, which was close to where we would meet a client the next day. I didn’t have much time to work [...]
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Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware
by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | Comments Off
This is the last post in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” As a final test, I connected to my VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop environments from my hotel in Oslo, Norway. I considered myself pretty lucky. For the last test, the conditions were pretty extreme. I consistently measured 405 ms of latency [...]
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Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware, vmworld
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
