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IBM, Citrix, and VMware are pushing the idea of providing desktops to users in the form of virtual machine-based remote Windows XP desktops instead of the traditional way of publishing a desktop session on a Terminal Server or Citrix Presentation Server. In this article, I'll take a brief look at the announcements from the past few weeks and then dig into the pros and cons of this architecture.
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Some major investment firms have recently published reports indicating that Citrix will have to compete with a fairly new technology concept called a "bladed PC." In this article, I look at what bladed PCs are and how their use will affect Citrix.
view related tags posted by Brian Madden on April 06, 2004.
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This is the third article in the series about VMware and Citrix and Terminal Server technologies. In this article, I look ahead to what EMC's purchase of VMware could mean, and how future solutions could be relevant in the server-based computing world.
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In pure Terminal Server environments, people will be better off building quad-processor servers that can each support 300-500 users instead of blades or 1U servers that can only support 50-200 users.
view related tags posted by Brian Madden on August 12, 2003.