The latest news about Virtualization and Cloud
Nutanix, a leading provider of hyper-efficient, massively scalable and elegantly simple datacenter infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has been verified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. As part of the program, Nutanix has completed a […]
Nutanix has announced that they have closed a $101 million Series D financing co-led by Riverwood Capital and SAP Ventures. Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Greenspring Associates also participated in the round as new investors, joining existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and Battery Ventures in the largest single financing round in the history […]
Nutanix has announced the general availability of its support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V. In this new release, Nutanix becomes a converged infrastructure provider with native support for three leading hypervisors: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM. This hypervisor-agnostic approach delivers a common data fabric to power hybrid enterprise datacenters running different […]
Citrix has announced the release of Citrix DesktopPlayer for Mac, a client virtualization solution, which extends the benefits of the market-leading Citrix XenDesktop solution to mobile MacBook users. DesktopPlayer gives users the ability to work on their Windows virtual desktops in any network scenario — including over low-quality connections, congested WiFi hotspots, and even […]
Citrix has announced that they are to acquire Framehawk, a small San Francisco based company with innovative technology for delivering enterprise applications to mobile workers even under adverse network conditions.This will also extend Citrix’s leadership in App and Desktop Virtualization User Experience overall. The Framehawk technology will be merged with Citrix HDX technologies to extend Citrix’s […]
Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation software solutions, today announced the introduction of Flex-IO, new software that addresses two key challenges in virtual desktop deployments – IOPS bottlenecks and latency. Flex-IO accelerates storage IOPS by an average of 25,000 available IOPS or roughly 40X per virtual desktop host. Latency is also often cited as […]
Citrix NetScaler platform, the industry’s most advanced cloud networking functionality, is Vblock Ready certified, delivering key functionality to VCE Vblock Systems. Citrix, also now a member of the VCE Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program, is working with VCE to give customers the ability to seamlessly incorporate the NetScaler platform into VCE Vblock System deployments. In doing […]
Citrix has announced that they are releasing new technology solutions that will provide additional services and revenue opportunities for the rapidly expanding Citrix Service Provider (CSP) channel. Available now, the Cloud Provider Pack 2, gives service providers powerful, industry-leading technology that enables a simple approach to providing differentiated and vertical-specific Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) offerings delivered with […]
Citrix say’s that new customer deployments of the market-leading Citrix XenDesktop with HDX 3D Pro to deliver high-end 3D apps to designers, engineers and workers all along the product design chain. Citrix global customers, Knightec AB and Wiha Werkzeuge GmBH are using XenDesktop to securely, centrally-deliver CAD applications to dispersed design teams, with the stunning […]
Citrix has acquired a company called Skytide. Skytide enables service providers to measure and monitor streaming video as a critical part of their CDN video delivery infrastructure. The holistic understanding Skytide delivers – and the insight that flows from it – is what enables the service providers as well as the businesses in each of […]
