Remote application software provider Citrix and mobile virtualization software vendor Open Kernel Labs have joined to author a specification for turning tomorrow's smartphones into mobile thin-client devices, the two companies announced today. They call their creation the Nirvana Phone.
A third of enterprises are looking to move to desktop virtualisation according to research from desktop services specialist Centrix. More than three-quarters of the respondents said that cost reduction was the prime driver for the move to the technology.
The Citrix Online subsidiary of Citrix Systems Inc. has upgraded its market-leading GoToMyPC remote access software, which now allows users to connect from or to their Macs over a distant network.
Citrix has developed disaster recovery software that uses Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology to help automate and speed the recovery process.
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is set to become a feasible, cost–effective approach to souring in the coming year with a key challenge to the technology – the workable number of virtual PCs per server – becoming resolved, according to Citrix.
The adoption of employee-owned IT as a real infrastructure sourcing and management strategy appears to be gaining traction, with Citrix ANZ Australia reporting a high degree of success with its own approach.
Citrix's desktop virtualization customers are still using VMware's server hypervisor on the back end, but a Citrix executive claims a shift away from VMware is afoot.
Improved end user experience, lower cost storage and virtual desktops as a service (DaaS) will be the key to accelerating virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) adoption, according to VMware.
Citrix Systems has added more licensing options and editions to its upcoming desktop virtualization platform XenDesktop 4, including the option to pay by the number of devices used, it said on Tuesday.
How fast is the shift to server virtualization happening? According to Gartner, 18% of server workloads this year run on virtualized servers; that share will grow to 28% next year and reach almost half by 2012.
Citrix on Monday said its latest desktop virtualization software will give users access to high-definition desktops from any location and from just about any device, including PCs, Macs, thin clients, laptops, netbooks and smartphones.
Citrix is preparing a major desktop virtualization push that it believes will help speed adoption of virtual desktops in the enterprise, and perhaps help the vendor take market share away from rival VMware.
Developers of the Xen open source hypervisor are trying to make Xen the industry's cloud-building platform of choice with a new initiative designed to expand upon the hypervisor's ability to create "secure, customizable, multi-tenant cloud services."
Microsoft and Citrix have decided not to sponsor next week’s VMworld virtualization conference and are maintaining only a limited presence at the show due to conflicts with rival VMware.
Citrix Systems is talking up Xen, claiming that more than 10 per cent of global Fortune 500 companies have downloaded and activated its XenServer virtualisation platform for production use in the last four months