Citrix Online, a services division of Citrix Systems, will acquire a German company that provides similar remote management and collaboration tools and has a strong European market position. – Eyeing huge growth opportunities in the European software-as-a-service
market, Citrix Online will acquire German SAAS provider Netviewer, said parent
company Citrix Systems on Dec. 17.
The transaction is expected to close in early 2011. Citrix will purchase all
the shares of the privately held …
GigaSpaces integration with Citrix Systems is immediately available and has been verified as Citrix Ready. – GigaSpaces, a provider of application platforms for Java and .NET
environments, announced it has partnered with desktop virtualization specialist
Citrix Systems to provide an open and elastic cloud-enabled platform.
Integrating GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) with Citrix OpenCloud
…
Consumer products have made more inroads into the IT infrastructure in recent years. Witness the Apple iPhone. Now a vast majority of business leaders say they will support the use of Apple’s iPad, according to a new informal survey by Citrix. – An informal survey by server and desktop virtualization specialist Citrix Systems found an overwhelming majority of businesses would support the adoption of Apples iPad, which has moved 2 million units since its debut in April. The preliminary results of the survey were posted by the companys vice p…
Dell and HP are rolling out new laptops designed to support Citrixs new XenClient hypervisor technology, which expands the desktop virtualization capabilities in the mobile space. In addition, Dell is growing its services offerings for its Flexible Computing Solutions, and both Dell and HP are unveiling new desktop virtualization reference architectures. The announcements coincide with Citrixs Synergy 2010 show.
– Dell and Hewlett-Packard are using Citrix Systems Synergy 2010 show
to roll out new mobile products and services for their respective
desktop virtualization initiatives.
The Synergy 2010 conference is running May 12-14 in San Francisco.
Both OEMs are offering support for Citrixs new
XenClient h…
Truphone joins Citrix Systems and Cisco Systems in moving quickly to make voice applications for the iPad that allow users to take a virtual office with them anywhere they go by providing secure access to their corporate applications and documents.
– Global mobile operator Truphone is adding voice over IP to the iPad
applications
that give users to the ability to make voice calls. Truphone’s application
turns Apple’s tablet PC into quot;a mobile phone that offers free or low-cost
international calls, as well as advanced instant messaging f…
Microsoft’s Windows XP Mode, designed to provide SMBs that upgraded to Windows 7 with last-ditch compatibility for proprietary applications that need Windows XP, no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to run. Originally announced as part of Microsoft’s partnership agreement with Citrix Systems, the change could make the application more appealing to businesses keeping a tight rein on their IT budgets. Recent virtualization announcements by Microsoft, Citrix and VMware highlight how competitive the virtualization arena has become in a relatively short time frame.
– Windows XP Mode no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to
run, Microsoft emphasized in a March 18 post on its official Windows blog, the same day it
announced a new partnership with Citrix Systems.
quot;This change makes it extremely easy for businesses to use Windows XP
Mode to…
Microsoft and Citrix Systems announce a broad-based partnership designed to promote the two companies’ end-to-end solutions for virtualization, such as applying Citrix XenDesktop’s HDX technology to the Microsoft RemoteFX platform. Microsoft and Citrix also announce a promotion that aggressively targets virtualization rival VMware’s customer base. On its own, Microsoft has been updating its virtualization options for businesses.
– Microsoft has announced a partnership with Citrix Systems aimed at promoting
the two companies’ end-to-end virtualization packages for businesses. One
particularly aggressive facet of the new alliance has Microsoft and Citrix
offering VMware View customers the ability to trade in 500 licenses at …
Aimed at cost-conscious businesses, Citrix GoToManage is anintegrated web-based platform for controlling unattended IT infrastructure. The company also announced a partnership with Carpathia Hosting.
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Citrix Systems online division announced it was entering
the IT Management sector with the launch of GoToManage, an integrated web-based
platform for monitoring, controlling and supporting attended or unattended IT
infrastructure. GoToManage is aimed at small to medium-size busine…
A study by TheInfoPro shows that while VMware is still the dominant virtualization technology in the data center, IT professionals are increasingly willing to consider alternatives from Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat for some workloads. The trend is away from a homogeneous data center to a more heterogeneous one, according to the survey.
– VMware is still king of server virtualization, but as the use of the
technology in data centers grows, so will the use of use virtualization
products from Microsoft, Citrix Systems and Red Hat.
That is what market research firm TheInfoPro found in a study released Dec.
7.
VMware
continues to l…
Citrix’s new options include a Dazzle offering for Windows and Macintosh computers and updated versions of Citrix Receiver for Windows and Mac plus the popular iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile devices.
– The market battle to stake out stronger positions in the desktop virtualization
business appears to be heating up.
Only a week after VMware
launched a spiffy new edition of its View virtualized desktop, Citrix
Systems Nov. 17 announced upgrades to its own desktop virtualization software. Hewl…
Citrix is announcing Project Open Door in hopes of luring VMware customers to its own XenServer virtualization platform or Microsofts Hyper-V technology. The common thread in the migration pitch is the Citrix Essentials management software that integrates with both XenServer and Hyper-V. Citrix officials touted the management software while also arguing that XenServer and Hyper-V are cheaper alternatives to VMwares vSphere 4 or ESX platforms.
– Citrix Systems is kicking off a program designed to lure businesses
away from VMware server virtualization technology and to Citrixs
XenServer product or Microsofts Hyper-V offering.
Citrix officials unveiled Project Open Door Oct. 14, offering free
support, training and migration tools to enter…
A day after Citrix and VMware showed off new capabilities in their desktop virtualization products, Pano Logic is announcing Version 2.8 of its Pano System. Pano Logics desktop virtualization offering centralizes all the processing, memory and software on a central server, and leaves only a zero-client Pano Device on the employee desktop. Pano System 2.8 enhances scalability and management, and includes the ability for users to connect the Pano Device to two monitors.
– Pano Logic is releasing the latest version of its desktop virtualization technology into a highly competitive market that has seen its share of vendor moves recently.
A day after Citrix Systems unveiled its XenDesktop 4 technology and VMware announced that its Fusion product now supports Apples “Sn…
The Virtual SAN Appliance will enable IT shops that use Citrix Systems virtual server tools to test out DataCore Software’s storage software at no cost. The Virtual SAN Appliance evaluation software connects Citrix Essentials with a StorageLink-certified, iSCSI shared-storage SAN that can pool up to 1TB of disk space.
– Storage virtualization and disaster recovery provider DataCore Software said
Aug. 6 that it has joined with Citrix Systems to distribute a free virtual storage
area network appliance for IT managers to test out.
The Virtual SAN Appliance software will
enable IT shops that use Citrix’s virtual…
Citrix Systems, which also offers its Receiver technology to users of Apples iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry smartphone, is now looking to bring those capabilities to mobile devices running Googles Android operating system. Receiver lets mobile device users access their Microsoft Windows applications anywhere.
– Citrix Systems is expanding its presence in the mobile space.
At its iForum Singapore event, which ran the week of July 27, Citrix
officials showed off an early version of its Receiver product for
mobile devices based on Googles Android operating system.
The Receiver for Android product will gro…
Citrix Systems is using Microsoft’s high-profile Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans as pretext for announcing its new Express Edition of Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V, designed to take advantage of the virtualization component of Windows Server 2008. Although the Express Edition of the application is free, IT administrators with three or more Hyper-V servers will need to upgrade to the Enterprise or Platinum Editions.
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Citrix
Systems rolled out a new Express Edition of its Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V on July 13. Designed to help IT administrators adopting Hyper-V into the
enterprise, the application includes Citrix StorageLink, which streamlines the
storage management process for Windows Server 20…
Citrix Systems is using Microsoft’s high-profile Worldwide Partner Conference as an opportunity to announce its Express Edition of Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V, designed to take advantage of the virtualization component of Windows Server 2008. Although the Express Edition of the application is free, IT administrators with three or more Hyper-V servers will need to upgrade to Enterprise or Platinum.
– Citrix
Systems rolled out a new Express Edition of its Citrix Essentials for Microsoft
Hyper-V on July 13. Designed to help IT administrators adopting Hyper-V, the
application includes Citrix StorageLink, which streamlines the storage
management process for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System…
