Archive for 25. September 2008

Citrix Hits the VDI High Notes

25. September 2008 by Tony.

Paul Venezia, senior contributing editor of the InfoWorld Test Center, recently posted a review of Citrix XenDesktop. Paul writes “The future is bright for VDI and, thus, for XenDesktop”. He goes on to say “Citrix has married VDI to its existing stable of application and desktop delivery mechanisms, and it continues to leverage the stellar ICA protocol to assist in speed, user experience, and manageability” (emphasis mine). The review evaluates Citrix XenDesktop on five categories - Management, Performance, Scalability, Setup and Value. Overall, Paul rates XenDesktop solution as “Very Good”.

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Desktop Virtualization: VMware Adds To VDI Protocol Collection

25. September 2008 by Tony.

Desktop Virtualization: VMware Adds To VDI Protocol Collection
— VMware is collecting protocols. Last week it made Teradici’s day and announced that it had licensed the software implementation of the Canadian start-up’s PC-over-IP display protocol technology as a key piece of its so-called PC-replacing vClient initiative.

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