Desktop Virtualization 2010: A market ripe for Citrix to own, Desktops in Cloud coming soon?
By Tarry Singh at 25 September, 2009, 1:10 pm
I do agree mostly with this analysis. XenClient and Citrix’s commitment to its own hypervisor which — as some say — will be merged into Hyper-V’s own flavor, still puts Citrix to top the Virtualization game on desktop. If Gartner’s ball gazing (sic) is right, then we have some 660M PCs that wil become virtual!
But Citrix has a few other things going for it. Citrix may be able to beat VMware to market with XenClient, its bare-metal desktop hypervisor, which will support the “bring-your-own-PC” model, Wolf says.
Citrix also can benefit from a tight partnership with Microsoft. The release of Windows 7 will likely be followed by an increase in virtual desktop deployments, because a number of IT shops didn’t want to virtualize XP this year with another operating system release coming soon. Citrix can and should take advantage by further integrating its own products with Microsoft’s System Center, to give IT administrators a common management tool across their desktop infrastructure, he says.
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Before we call a winner I think we need to see what Redhat has up their sleeve. It can be a real game changer - let’s wait out the year to see what they can do.