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  • Look out VMware! Citrix partners with Intel for "Project Independence," a bare-metal hypervisor they hope to make ubiquitous.

    Citrix made several announcements today around desktop computing. First, they're announcing, with Intel, that they're working on a Xen-based bare-metal client hypervisor . Second, they're announcing something called " Project Independence...
    Brian Madden on January 21, 2009 : 16 comments , 8,439 views
  • Application Virtualization Solutions Overview and Feature Comparison Matrix, Reloaded! - UPDATED

    The whitepaper - Application Virtualization Solutions Overview and Feature Comparison Matrix - is updated to version 2.1. New features are added and with some additional research some vendor functions are changed. In April 2007, I released the first Application...
    Ruben Spruijt on January 19, 2009 : 1 comments , 6,095 views
  • An introduction to VMware View 3, Part 2 of 3 – Linked Clones

    In this three-part article series, Roland van der Kruk, a freelance consultant in The Netherlands, takes a look at the new features of VMware View 3, as well as best practices learned while doing a deployment for a customer. Part 1 provides information...
    Guest Bloggers on January 18, 2009 : 23 comments , 34,353 views
  • Not to be outdone by VMware, Citrix also dabbles in the mobile device hypervisor space

    Two months ago, VMware bought a company called Trango and launched the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform. Back then I wrote that the Trango acquisition was not about running VDI or Windows on a mobile phone, but instead about allowing multiple phone...
    Brian Madden on January 16, 2009 : 4 comments , 3,595 views
  • An introduction to VMware View 3 features and best practices, Part 1 of 3

    In this three-part article series, Roland van der Kruk, a freelance consultant in The Netherlands, takes a look at the new features of VMware View 3, as well as best practices learned while doing a deployment for a customer. Part 1 (this article) provides...
    Guest Bloggers on January 15, 2009 : 21 comments , 27,852 views
  • Follow Ruben on Twitter!?

    I have started twittering about my daily activities. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters...
    Ruben Spruijt on January 12, 2009 : 0 comments , 2,485 views
  • Our "state of the industry" survey closes tomorrow. Please take 5 minutes and fill it out.

    We're going to keep our industry survey open until Friday, so if you haven't taken it or you haven't finished yours, please take a minute to do so now . We'll share the results publicly, so the more people who participate, the more complete...
    Brian Madden on January 08, 2009 : 0 comments , 2,478 views
  • The desktop and application virtualization 2008 year in review

    Another year has ended. We did a "year in review" article in 2005 and 2006 (not sure what happened last year), and we thought it would be fun to take a look back at the significant events in the desktop and application virtualization space from...
    Brian Madden on January 07, 2009 : 1 comments , 6,897 views
  • The Lonely Planet for Application and Desktop delivery 2008-2009

    With a wide range of application and desktop delivery solutions available, determining which solution can best accommodate your requirements and desires is no simple matter. What are the different Application Virtualisation solutions, which suppliers...
    Ruben Spruijt on January 02, 2009 : 9 comments , 8,420 views