Delivering on its promise last year to deepen integration with Microsoft technologies, Citrix on Monday took the wraps off XenDesktop Essentials, its new Windows 10 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offering for the Microsoft Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 09, 2017
Google has expanded its datacenter service offerings to include Windows Server 2016 instances, the search giant announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2016
VMware is enabling support for Microsoft's Skype for Business product in its Horizon 7 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, the company said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 20, 2016
More known for its PC, laptop and server products, Lenovo is making inroads in the digital workspace market dominated by Citrix and VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 18, 2016
Microsoft is readying a new offer aimed at swaying organizations running VMware to switch to Hyper-V.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016
Microsoft and Citrix this week laid out the terms of their partnership, including their plan to combine Microsoft's Azure datacenter solutions with Citrix's virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016
Microsoft is in the process of replacing its 2-year-old Azure RemoteApp service for a new solution that it is currently developing with strategic partner Citrix called XenApp "express."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 12, 2016
Microsoft recently took the wraps off its new Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) F-Series, aimed at organizations running "gaming servers, Web servers and batch processing."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 15, 2016
Microsoft recently put the spotlight on Shielded Virtual Machines (VMs), its datacenter security technology aimed at protecting workloads in public and private datacenters from "malicious administrators."
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 13, 2016
VMware, whose parent company is set to be acquired by Dell as part of the largest deal in IT history, reportedly began laying off employees this week, just ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings announcement.
- By Keith Ward
- January 26, 2016
Citrix, a company in the midst of a significant restructuring effort, signaled a return to its roots during this week's Citrix Summit partner conference in Las Vegas.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 13, 2016
Microsoft on Thursday released technical preview 4 (TP4) of Windows Server 2016.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 19, 2015
As part of a companywide restructuring plan, Citrix Systems Inc. this week announced that it is spinning off its "GoTo" product line and laying off about 1,000 employees.
- By Keith Ward
- November 19, 2015
Microsoft this week released the latest Windows 10 test build, which includes a preview of a new "nested virtualization" feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 14, 2015
In a deal that will reshape the IT landscape, Dell Inc. has agreed to acquire EMC Corp. for $67 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 12, 2015
According to the New York Times, Dell is in "advanced talks" to buy EMC, the parent company of VMware.
- By Keith Ward
- October 08, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new offering aimed at organizations with Azure virtual machines (VMs) that want to scale up their operations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 03, 2015
On Tuesday, Citrix announced that Mark Templeton, Citrix's president since 1998 and CEO since 2001, will retire after a successor has been chosen.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 28, 2015
VMware and Microsoft are the two undisputed leaders in x86 server virtualization infrastructure, according to Gartner's 2015 "Magic Quadrant" report.
- By Keith Ward
- July 21, 2015
Michael Fraser laid out the case in these pages a year ago for how Microsoft could shift its licensing to enable Desktop as a Service in the next year or two. We caught up with Fraser for a largely discouraging update on progress in the last year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- June 15, 2015