Will Microsoft buy Citrix?

Last week a few news sites claimed that Forbes said that Microsoft might buy Citrix. While those claims aren't really valid, it does make for a fun mental exercise to think about.

Posted by Brian Madden on January 27, 2008 -

Tomorrow's news today: Microsoft buys VDI vendor Calista Technologies, expands partnership with Citrix

Microsoft will announce tomorrow that they are buying VDI vendor Calista Technologies. They will also announce an expanded partnership with Citrix where Citrix and Microsoft will jointly market their virtualization services.Off-the-record rumors of a big acquistion by Microsoft next Tuesday (tomorrow) started circulating last week. Then today Forbes magazine (accidentally?) published an article with a publication date of tomorrow about the Microsoft aquiring Calista and expanding their...

Posted by Brian Madden on January 21, 2008 -

In VMware's future, will ALL desktops be managed?

I was thinking more about this whole "Thinstall thing" last night... In my analysis of VMware's purchase of Thinstall, I made a big point about how VMware is moving up the value chain into the application space. Thinstall's application virtualization is a key piece of that and will allow single VMware-powered Windows virtual disk images to be more powerful since they could come "pre-packaged" with applications (via both remote desktops via VDI and locally-executed...

Posted by Brian Madden on January 18, 2008 -

Results of CIO Magazine's survey about Virtualization in 2008

CIO Magazine just published the results of a reader survey they conducted about virtualization in the enterprise in 2008.A few highlights:92% of respondants are using virtualization somewhere in their companies.42% believe that the political / organizational challenges are harder than the technical challenges of virtualization.77% build a small, "quick win" project to prove the value of virtualization.73% prefer to build-out their virtualization systems in-house, without using external...

Posted by Brian Madden on January 11, 2008 -

How secure is Citrix Presentation Server after you do a default installation?

An article on vnunet claims that if you just do a default installation of Citrix Presentation Server, you're leaving your system vulnerable to attack. Is this true? If so, how would you fix it?

Posted by Brian Madden on January 10, 2008 -