Hoping to stay a step ahead of rival VMware, Citrix Systems is now shipping its XenDesktop product line of desktop virtualization software. Announced Tuesday at the company’s annual Citrix Synergy ...

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Citrix XenDesktop puts the core desktop PC components, including the operating system, the application, and the settings, into a desktop image that can be run off a server, said Calvin Hsu, principal ...

Citrix Systems chose Demo08 to launch XenDesktop, a desktop virtualization datacenter application. Using Xen Desktop software will allow IT managers to provision hundreds of end points with memory and ...

Last week’s tips for successfully hosting virtual desktops story mentioned an interesting alternative to VDI: Citrix’s hosted shared virtual desktop technology, based on XenApp. The technology has ...

KVM sponsor Qumranet launched its long awaited desktop virtualization solution today, just weeks before rival Citrix launches its own XenDesktop solution. The Sunnyvale, calif. company announced on ...

With the next major release of the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor expected this August, the project’s developers have turned their attention to a new issue: security. Over the last few months, a group of ...

Following on from some of my other threads, we're currently running a proof of concept of XenApp (together with AppSense and Microsoft Vergence (was Sentillion) to provide fast, seamless access to ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The dueling product debuts position the two vendors for what promises to be an explosive market next year and beyond: Gartner predicts that the hosted virtual desktop market will surpass $65 billion ...

Programmers have released a new version of Xen with a graphics feature that makes the virtualization software more useful on desktop computers. Xen lets a single computer run multiple operating ...