News: vSphere Enterprise to continue beyond 2009

October 5, 2009
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vSphere Enterprise has a stay of execution beyond 2009.

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News: Akamai Introduces Managed Internet Service for Delivery of Virtualized Applications and Desktops

October 5, 2009
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. announce the industry's first managed Internet service for optimizing delivery of virtualized applications and desktops. Based on Akamai's IP Application Accelerator solution this new service is designed to help enterprises realize the cost efficiency, scalability and global reach inherent with the Internet to deliver VDI solutions offered by companies such as Citrix,…

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News: Less than a week to VM Expo in London

October 2, 2009
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In its second year, VM Expo is the UK’s first and largest event dedicated to Virtualization.  From 7th – 8th of October in London at Earls Court Two, this free to attend event has over 190 seminars and 180 vendors. This year’s virtualization keynote address will be delivered by Stephen Herrod, CTO and Senior VP…

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Enterprise Desktop Strategy – White Paper

October 1, 2009
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Virtual desktop infrastructure solutions present organizations with an alternative for deploying traditional PC desktops. Think that a virtual desktop is going to be the panacea to alleviate your current desktop woes? There is much that needs to be considered before rolling out your first solution. In this analysis I take a look at the necessary…

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News: Cisco Enter the Rack mount market with UCS

September 30, 2009
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We all remember the fanfare that sounded on the release of the UCS Blade technology, well Cisco have just quietly snuck an announcement out of the door about some rack mounted brothers for the Blades, now these are as usual "more than just a rack mount server" they are the next addition in the "unified…

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News: Cisco to introduce a Chassis Nexus

September 30, 2009
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Things have been very busy at Cisco today in addition to the new that they are to release a Rack mounted version of there UCS servere. the Networking giant and server newboy on the block Cisco Systems announced that will be working with third-party blade server makers to create a version of its Nexus family…

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Liquidware Labs Creates a new ROI Path for VDI

September 29, 2009
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LiquidWare Labs has announced a new pricing and packaging option for its StratusSphere platform that was specifically designed for Managed Services Providers (MSP’s) who have an existing business managing fat client desktops for large enterprises, and who wish to virtualize all or a part of these desktops. This new offering is called the Managed Virtual…

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Are Hypervisor Vendors welcoming ISVs?

September 28, 2009
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There is a great debate on which hypervisor vendor works with ISVs and which do not. You have a number of ISVs working with VMware that are just now starting to work with Hyper-V. A number of ISVs that are struggling to catch up in the virtualization space. Hypervisor Vendors that are directly competing with…

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Seven Deadly Sins When Deploying Thin Clients

September 25, 2009
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The traditional Enterprise Desktop PC can be said to be on borrowed time. With marketing machines re-heralding the benefits of centralisation removing that Enterprise Desktop PC for Thin Client appears to be a far more prudent use of refresh budgets. While Thin Clients can, and do, replace Enterprise Desktops, there are major considerations to be…

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