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 | 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 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 | 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
