Solution Set

VMware continues to dominate the server virtualization landscape; however, challengers such as Microsoft, Citrix, and Red Hat are providing competitive features for consolidation and virtual infrastructure management.

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VMware continues to dominate the server virtualization landscape; however, challengers such as Microsoft, Citrix, and Red Hat are providing competitive features for consolidation and virtual infrastructure management.

Tool

This tool allows enterprises to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on required capabilities and future requirements around server consolidation, virtual infrastructure management, and the internal cloud.

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The opening keynote of Citrix Synergy 2010 unveiled new products from Citrix partners for an anti-virus solution for virtual machines, as well as a new Wyse zero client. However, the most significant announcement was for the new XenClient...

Citrix announced XenDesktop at its 2008 Synergy conference and, within one year, Citrix is already up to Version 3. Explore the new features, future advances, and how Citrix is addressing the top priorities for virtualization.

(By Info-Tech Analyst John Sloan- Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com). Desktop PC virtualization promises a win-win solution to an age-old tug-of-war between centralized PC management and end-user experience....

Any small enterprise that wishes to create an agile, highly optimized server infrastructure can do so using the hardware and tools currently available. The utility infrastructure will continue to evolve and improve as more server rooms migrate...

Virtualized I/O, like OS and application virtualization, is a requirement for a truly agile data center. In light of that requirement, the major blade server vendors have begun to implement I/O virtualization for their systems. While a good...

In-Depth Report

Leading virtualization vendors such as VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft want to offer one-stop virtualization "from the desktop to the data center." These comprehensive approaches involve more than one kind of virtual abstraction. Understand what...

Cost conscious small enterprises that find market leading VMware's licensing costs steep should consider rival Virtual Iron. The Xen-based virtualization provider has been focusing on a functional me-too feature set at lower price points than...

Microsoft has become more aggressive in embracing server and desktop virtualization. This renewed push will make the virtualization market more competitive. However, Microsoft is not a leader in this space and remains considerably behind the...

Few small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) can afford much in the way of offsite redundancy for disaster recovery purposes, and fewer still have budget room for a proper hot site. While virtualization is a tempting option to provide resiliency...

Any enterprise that wishes to create an agile, highly optimized data center can do so using the hardware and tools currently available. The utility infrastructure will continue to evolve and improve as more data centers migrate away from the...