Citrix Survey: 84% businesses wil adopt iPad for real work!
By Tarry Singh at 1 June, 2010, 2:47 pm
I need iPad for my business and working with presentations in where I help my high-end customers with big strategic decisions. With iPad I can carry light while the stuff that I do for my customers is heavy. So I totally understand why this survey has this big group of users, especially in the executive [...]
Read More >>5 reasons why Citrix acquisition is necessary for Oracle’s Cloud strategy
By Tarry Singh at 13 April, 2010, 1:45 pm
I have written recently about an imminent Oracle take-over of Citrix. There are several reasons for it and lets go by them wuickly one by one: Collaboration Suite Oracle needs it and Citrix has a proven set of tools that customers use on a daily basis in millions. Oracle needs it to make Cisco shudder [...]
Read More >>Oracle rumored to snap up Citrix under IBM’s nose; VMware, are you listening?
By Tarry Singh at 6 January, 2010, 7:10 am
This would give Oracle stake in the desktop market dramatically. Oracle wants to be the IBM and this would beat IBM to its game and not to mention that VMware and other players will be stunned as Oracle huge and angry sales machine will go after the customers and the desktop market like never before. [...]
Read More >>Citrix announces Project “Open Door” for customers who want to switch from VMware to XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V
By Tarry Singh at 16 October, 2009, 1:48 am
Introducing Project Open Door Project Open Door helps ensure customers looking to expand their datacenters with XenServer or Hyper-V have a smooth transition. Through March 2010, customers who switch existing VMware servers to XenServer or Hyper-V, and add Citrix Essentials for advanced virtualization management, will receive additional technical support, training, and conversion tools from Citrix [...]
Read More >>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! [...]
Read More >>Citrix Enhances Market Leading HDX Technology for High-Definition Virtual Desktops
By Tarry Singh at 31 August, 2009, 1:02 pm
SANTA CLARA, CA. — August 31, 2009 — Today Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), announced a new breakthrough addition to its market leading HDX Technology™, ensuring a high-definition virtual desktop experience even for the most demanding high-end professional graphics environments. The new HDX 3D technology, available as a feature of Citrix® XenDesktop™, delivers a rich, [...]
Read More >>Xen project unleashed: “Build-your-own-cloud” tooklit; Amazon remains tight-lipped
By Tarry Singh at 30 August, 2009, 10:44 am
I am very curious why Amazon, who is sucking a lot of Xen-air in its data centers is playing so silent. With loads of Cloud providers coming out in the open, the whole Cloud game would be free for all, as I have so long projected, and there will be all sorts of Clouds and [...]
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Swords are drawn: Microsoft, Citrix are not sponsoring VMworld 2009!
By Tarry Singh at 25 August, 2009, 4:33 pm
Update1 Aug 26th 2009: Citrix PR just contacted me with the following statement thus justifying that it was impossible for Citrix to sponsor with the rules VMware had imposed. Clearly VMware has been labeled a “proprietary vendor” while Microsoft, Novell, Redhat, Citrix and even Oracle (to some extent) are mixin’ and hashin’. Also noteworthy is [...]
Read More >>Desktop Virtualization: VMware View vs XenDesktop; Seeing is believing?
By Tarry Singh at 24 August, 2009, 11:57 am
I saw this on Alessandro’s site as a Featured Video and was tempted to repost it here. This clearly tells us very different things here: – Desktop is not an easy terrain – Choose wisely
Read More >>Fortune 100 companies are beginning to taste Citrix XenServer!
By Tarry Singh at 12 August, 2009, 10:18 pm
BOSTON – August 12, 2009 – Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) today announced that more than 10 percent of Global Fortune 500 companies have downloaded and activated its Citrix® XenServer™ virtualization platform for production use in the last four months, with activations among large enterprises spiking significantly after the release of XenServer 5.5 in June. [...]
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