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Citrix Looks to Secure the Virtual Desktop
Citrix Systems is looking to offer a new layer of security around the virtual desktop. On June 9, the company released the latest version of its Access Gateway appliance—Version 8.1—now integrated with Citrix XenDesktop, which allows IT departments to create a virtual desktop infrastructure where the desktop images and applications are streamed to the PC…
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VMware Faces Virtual Reality
A year after VMware’s successful IPO, virtualization has shifted gears from niche technology to the must-have underpinning for projects ranging from disaster recovery to data backup to desktop application delivery. It’s not surprising, then, that other companies are developing products for the market that VMware has been synonymous with up until now. So CEO Diane…
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VARs Choose VMware for Server Virtualization
It’s been said "no one gets fired for buying IBM." These days you may want to add VMware to that vaunted list. Solution providers have lined up in droves behind the market leader in virtualization – widely acknowledged to command about a 90-percent share. Rivals like Citrix’s Xen technology and Virtual Iron have not come…
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VMware Virtualization Goes Generic
Looking to expand its market to reach more SMBs and geographies, VMware has announced that it will certify its VMware ESX and ESXi hypervisor on servers offered by certain white box manufacturers. The virtualization vendor announced its new relationships with ODMs (original design manufacturers) ASUS, Gigabyte, Inventec and Tyan at Computex Taipei. The new ODM…
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Tech Data Joins VMware Ranks
Tech Data has entered the virtualization fray by signing VMware to its portfolio, becoming the vendor’s fifth U.S. distributor. Tech Data announced today that it will now offer the entire VMware portfolio to its customer base through its Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Division. Pete Peterson told Channel Insider the conversation with VMware started in earnest…
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Citrix Rounds Out Virtualization
Citrix Systems at its iForum conference on Oct. 22 will demonstrate to customers just how broad its definition of application delivery really is when it launches new virtualization technology along with new communications, security and power management features embedded in its flagship Presentation Server line. With the close of its XenSource acquisition, Citrix will launch…