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• Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway?

  Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing.

• Defence gears up to deploy 90,000 thin clients following successful pilot

  The Department of Defence has received government approval to roll out secure thin clients to 90,000 Defence personnel across Australia following a successful pilot.

• Linux Foundation welcomes new members, as existing heavyweights up their commitments

  The Linux Foundation made several membership announcements over the weekend, welcoming new members Cloudsoft, Cloudscaling, CloudSigma and DreamHost to the fold at LinuxCon Europe, currently being held in Barcelona.

• 2012: Virtual desktops are all the rage

  As budgets are locked in for 2012 it's time to aggressively expand <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">server</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a>, and for those who have been held back by cost, to consider <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/120511-cloud-companies.html">virtual desktops</a>.

• Can Windows play well on the iPad?

  All those iPads racing into the enterprise must maneuver around a tricky corner: getting Windows desktop apps to run on iPads without wrecking the user experience. Sure, Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI, can render entire Windows desktops and their apps on the iPad-but not always well.

• Citrix personalizes, extends virtual desktops

  Working to boost the versatility and speed of virtual desktops, Citrix Systems has updated its XenDesktop software to allow users to personalize their desktops, as well as offer the ability to access their desktops over wide area networks (WANs), the company announced Wednesday.

• BYO technology report findings

  Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) schemes are on the increase as a new survey reveals 90 per cent of Australian CIOs are aware that their employees are using their personal devices in the workplace.

• Citrix apps for NBN Co internal staff, contractors

  National Broadband Network (NBN) wholesaler, NBN Co, has contracted Citrix to deploy the vendor’s desktop virtualization software and infrastructure for internal staff and contractors.

• Businesslink shortlists four vendors for tender

  Sydney-based corporate services provider and NSW government agency, Businesslink, has selected four vendors for a tender to upgrade its IT delivery core infrastructure components.

• Citrix tops VMware in desktop virtualization, again

  Citrix's VDI technology has surged ahead of rival VMware's, according to the Burton Group, which says Citrix's XenDesktop software is the first "enterprise-ready" server-hosted virtual desktop product.

• ACCC seeks support for its new Citrix environment

  The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) is to shortly source Citrix management and support services to underpin its development of on-demand services for its ICT users.

• HealthSMART grows on virtual servers, apps

  Victoria's whole-of-health ICT strategy, HealthSMART, has grown from eight to 1000 servers in four years as it gears up to provide application services to some 140,000 end-users across the state, including the occasional iPad-wielding clinician.

• Wyse Technology's new device isn't your father's dumb terminal

  There may be a lot to like about thin-client hardware like Wyse Technology Inc.'s Xenith for Citrix, which is due next month. But, so far, this thin technology isn't shoving desktops off corporate desks.

• McAfee and Citrix partner to secure virtual desktop

  McAfee and Citrix have announced a strategic partnership and collaboration agreement to make secure virtual desktop and make it scalable for large enterprise deployments, according to a release. The collaboration will enable Citrix XenDesktop customers to extend management of desktop security to virtual environments using the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform.

• Citrix aims to bring virtualisation to offline users

  Citrix claims to have cracked one of the limitations of desktop virtualisation - how to continue working when a machine is offline. Citrix has announced a beta release of XenClient, its client-side virtualisation product that allows users to continue working on virtual desktops even when they're disconnected from the network.