Desktop Virtualization

AppSense looks to drive more business with revitalized Citrix

January 14, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Windows-focused virtualization management optimization vendor provides a detailed update, including their relationship with Citrix and other co-opetitors, their channel policies, and where they see their market going.

Nutanix, Citrix deepen collaboration with Citrix support for Nutanix Acropolis solution

August 12, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Citrix certifies the complete Nutanix Acropolis solution as Citrix Ready, in what they intimate is only an opening round in future joint technical advances.

New Dell VDI appliance designed to bring Citrix to smaller customers

May 12, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

At Citrix Synergy, Dell also announced new versions of two related software solutions, Dell Wyse Device Manager 5.5 and Foglight for Virtualization 8.2.

Dell announces new Wyse VDI appliance for sub 350 seat users

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Unlike two recently announced Dell VDI appliances, this one is aimed at the smaller market, and attractively priced for it, although by design it has very limited scalability beyond the 350 seat point.

Citrix is a security company: Citrix Canada’s Michael Murphy

February 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

In a wide-ranging discussion of where Citrix is headed in the Canadian market, their country manager also identifies key issues with competition, mobility, storage, and the impact of recent announced changes to the partner program.

ViewSonic, Userful roll out first joint VDI product for low-cost markets

November 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

ViewSonic and Calgary-based Userful announced last month that they would bundle Userful’s software and ViewSonic’s hardware into a VDI bundle, and now the first solution from this partnership has been announced.

Terry Buchanan, vice president of technology at Zycom.

Use your trade show attendance to boost marketing

September 3, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

How one Ontario solution provider is using its attendance at last week’s VMworld to educate and engage key customers and prospects.

VMware president and COO Carl Eschenbach

VMware adds $10B to expected TAM

August 26, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware sees growth in cloud and end user computing, and tells partners it has to shift its sales motion as it becomes much more than a one-product company.