Virtual Desktop (VDI)
Virtual Iron Software and Provision Networks today introduced a new bundled, server-hosted, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution that targets the challenges of managing, securing and maintaining today’s Windows-based, enterprise desktop infrastructure. The joint solution, which is available immediately, simplifies desktop management, shortens refresh cycles, and reduces hardware and software costs. It delivers all the benefits of server virtualization to desktop infrastructure and provides...
ClearCube today announced ClearCube Sentral™ version 5.5, part of the industry's only solution that manages virtualized PC desktops and dynamically delivers the required level of PC resources to end users. Building on the industry's first connection broker technology, Sentral v5.5 manages mixed physical PC blades with VMware-enabled virtual machines to seamlessly incorporate virtualization technology into centralized desktop computing without sacrificing end-user performance. This flexible management...
Citrix Systems announced Citrix Desktop Server™ 1.0 (previously code-named Project Trinity). The debut of this new technology marks the entrance into the burgeoning virtual desktop market for Citrix . With Desktop Server, Citrix is creating a new approach for IT organizations to deliver and manage desktops. Citrix Desktop Server will be important to IT managers who want to deliver an entire desktop in secure fashion to office workers who sometimes work from alternative locations, such as a home or...
Citrix Systems (QuoteChart-->)upgraded its application delivery software today and entered the market for desktop virtualization software. NetScaler is Citrix 's network management suite, providing high-speed load balancing and content switching along with traffic management, data compression, content caching and security features. The product, acquired in Citrix 's purchase of NetScaler nearly two years ago, is positioned in front of application servers to improve performance, availability and security...
Thanks to Michel Roth of ThinComputing.net Provision Networks provider of Server Based Computing software and VDI software showcased today at VMware TSX in Nice, France the version 5.8 of the Virtual Access Suite (VAS).The features of the Access Suite (VAS) 5.8 are: • Support for physical machines, including Blade PCs from HP, IBM and Dell • Non-Power-Managed Operational Mode: • Enhanced Management Console: • Enhanced Discovery Modes: Multiple discovery, enumeration, and import mechanisms of physical...
Computer Lab International (CLI), a leading provider of thin client products, announced expanded product capabilities that build on their ability to work within virtual desktop environments. All CLI thin clients products support VMware and Citrix environments. CLI thin clients support Microsoft RDP, which provides the basic compatibility to VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), as well as Citrix ICA, for compatibility with Citrix 's Desktop Broker for Presentation Server, a component of...
Microsoft Enables New Ways to Deploy Windows VistaQ&A: New options to license desktop virtualization and diskless PCs give Windows Vista Enterprise customers more choices, says the director of Microsoft's Windows Business Group. For many IT professionals within large organizations, maintaining control over their desktop environments is becoming an increasingly tall order. The cost of deploying and administering PCs – sometimes tens of thousands of PCs – across an enterprise can be significant,...
Citrix Whitepaper - Accelerating Microsoft Windows Vista Migrations with Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 For many organizations, it is not a question of “If” they will migrate to Windows® Vista™, but “When”. This is causing companies to start asking the difficult questions such as: When will their mission-critical applications support Vista? When will enough of their PCs be upgraded to meet system requirements? When can they complete regression testing and workarounds for any uncovered compatibility...
Citrix Systems plans to expand its Desktop Server product into three different offerings, including one where OS components are streamed on demand to a PC or thin client over the network, using technology from its acquisition last year of Ardence. Lou Shipley, VP and general manager of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based ISV's management systems group, said that today, Desktop Server is a connection broker between Microsoft's RDP and Cirix's ICA. In the next version of the product, however, he said...
Dennis Damen and Daniel Nikolic have just released version 1.1 of their LoadGen tool. This tool is completely free for simulating loads of up to 150 users per server. (You can buy licenses for more users if you want to go higher than that.) The idea behind LoadGen is that it is a dirt-simple tool that can run and manage user simulation scripts against Citrix , Provision Networks, or Terminal Server server-based computing environments. Tim Mangan wrote an in-depth review of an early version of this...
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