Virtualization

New IGEL Cloud Gateway software looks to improve support of off-network endpoints

February 28, 2017 Mark Cox 1

IGEL, which greatly strengthened its presence in North America last year, has mainly ramped up in the U.S. to date, but is planning a push in Canada this year.

Barracuda adds virtual and public cloud firewalls for MSPs

January 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Barracuda thinks that adding these other MSP firewall options will let MSPs create strong services packages with high appeal to customers.

Dell collaborates with Citrix on new XenDesktop VXRail solution

January 18, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The offering with Citrix provides the same capabilities of the latest version of a VMRail VMware solution announced at last year’s Dell EMC World, and gives Dell partners an offering for their Citrix focused customers.

Citrix outlines channel priorities for 2017 at Summit partner event

January 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Citrix’s new global channel chief also indicates that some simplifications of the program are in the works to make it easier to do business with Citrix – but likely not until 2018.

HPE, Atlantis kick off new hyper-converged infrastructure Citrix Ready program

January 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Citrix has announced the Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance Program, with Atlantis and HPE collaborating with Citrix on the first offering in it, the HPE Intelligent Edge Workspace. It is a turnkey virtual workspace appliance with mid-market simplicity and pricing.

LANDESK, HEAT to combine as LANDESK is purchased by HEAT owner

January 3, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Current LANDESK CEO Steve Daly will become CEO of the new company – as yet unnamed. HEAT CEO John Ferron becomes the Executive Chairman of the new company’s Board of Directors.

IGEL unveils tiny Linux thin client for specific BYOD use cases

December 14, 2016 Mark Cox 1

The IGEL UD Pocket measures 22.4mm x 12.2mm x 6mm, and weighs 3 grams.

Cloud VDI vendor Workspot to offer Desktop as a Service 2.0 on Azure

December 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Workspot, which has been challenging Citrix and VMware with its simple to deploy cloud VDI offering, is announcing a version tightly integrated with Azure that they expect will become the flagship product.