Exactly two years ago aquired XenSource, thus entering the server and desktop virtualization market. This put them in competition with their former partner VMware.
It cost Citrix $500 million for this acquisition. Recently they posted a chart directly challenging VMware View:
From their Blogs and Webinar:
FAQ: What differentiates the Citrix + Netapp VDI solution from the [...]
VMware releases View 4.0 private beta using PCoIP protocol. Vmware has been trying to replace Microsoft RDP since 2007. Currently the PcoIP only works with certain video cards. VMware must have overcome this obsticle because View 4.0 has embraced the PCoIP technology. VM will probably show a software implementation at VMworld next month.
During his last earnings call the VMware CEO Paul Maritz didn’t just announce a 38% drop in profits and the hiring of several new executives, but also the company forecast for the VDI adoption.
It’s not a secret that VMware is pushing hard on VDI since April 2007, when it acquired the startup Propero and decided [...]
Richard Garsthagen, the popular VMware Senior Evangelist behind the organization of VMworld Europe, released a new free tool called vAudit.
This tool allows to track a VMware View 3.x environment is being used by the users, auditing their activity on the virtual desktops (logon and logon failures, working hours, logoff and disconnection) and showing it on [...]
Last week Wyse Technology announced the release of Virtual Desktop Accelerator (VDA).
This new protocol enhancement, probably a superset of the existing TCX Multimedia technology that VMware is OEM’ing, is promised to accelerate up to 3 times the performance of Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp (using the ICA protocol), VMware View and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (both [...]
Just yesterday virtualization.info reported how Citrix is reorganizing its application virtualization division by appointing a new CTO.
VMware is doing exactly the same: virtualization.info has learned from trusted sources that the company is looking for a new CTO just for the desktop division, to take care of View, ThinApp, the new remote desktop in co-development with [...]
VMware, Cisco and EMC are really putting a massive effort in promoting the new Unified Computing System (UCS) blade platform that Cisco unveiled in March.
One of the most interesting things produced in this effort is the whitepaper that Cisco just published on his website: Scalability Study for Deploying VMware View on Cisco UCS and EMC [...]
Last week VMware updated to version 3.1 (build 167577) its connection broker solution View (formerly Virtual Desktop Manager).
This version includes the following new features:
Support for HP RGS protocol (version 5.2.5)
but only when the VDI endpoints are HP hardware (blade PCs, Workstations and Blade Workstations
Multimedia Redirection (MMR) for Windows Vista
MMR technology delivers the multimedia stream directly [...]
One week ago virtualization.info broke the news about the departure of Karthik Rau, Vice President of Product Management and Worldwide Marketing, and a key member of the original leadership team that led VMware in the early days.
An anonymous source sent us a tip on that news suggesting to double-check the employment status of some key [...]
It’s not a secret that VMware is working hard to drop Microsoft RDP as its remote desktop protocol of choice in VDI environments.
At the end of 2007 the company was already part of the VESA committee trying to develop the new standard Net2Display (that never saw the day of light so far).
And then, at VMworld [...]