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News: Virtualizing the Last Mile

May 16, 2012
By Texiwill
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There is a class of applications that is extremely difficult to virtualize. This group consists of graphics intensive applications such as ProEngineer, Photoshop, and pretty much anything that requires a GPU to perform well. Graphics intensive applications make up a list of applications that are usually too big or expensive to virtualize. The last...

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Multi-Tenancy: Who is the Tenant?

May 15, 2012
By Texiwill
VirtualizationSecurity

There seems to be a myriad of definitions of who is a tenant when it comes to secure multi-tenancy. This debate has occurred not only within The Virtualization Practice as well as at recent Interop and Symantec Vision conferences I attended. So who really...

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AppSense Hints at Future Direction with UV Suite 8.4, Data Locker and RAPsphere Acquisition

May 14, 2012
By Simon Bramfitt
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Much of the recent buzz around AppSense from AppSense Labs,the research division at AppSense that is responsible for StrataApps, DataLocker and DataNow, its hot new tools to support user installed applications and provide increased security in consumer cloud services. Nevertheless, AppSense has not forgotten...

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The Real-Time Big Data vSphere Management Problem

May 11, 2012
By Bernd Harzog
VirtualizationManagement

When your vSphere envioronment gets big, managing it becomes a big data problem, requiring real time or near real time data collection, complex real time analytics, and the ability...

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And then there were three – NxTop Enterprise morphs to XenClient Enterprise

May 10, 2012
By Andrew Wood
DesktopVirtualization

How will Citrix acquisition of NxTop impact VARs and users? How will XenClient will be marketed longer term. Looks like Citrix will embrace IDV as there is a wider...

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Citrix acquires client hypervisor leader Virtual Computer

May 9, 2012
By Simon Bramfitt
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Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has confirmed Tuesday's leaked story by announcing that Citrix has acquiring client hypervisor segment leader Virtual Computer. Templeton followed up the announcement with the news...

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