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 […]
This guide will take a look at GPU Virtualization (vGPU) with XenServer 6.2 Service Pack 1 and XenDesktop 7.1 and NVIDIA GPUs. This document helps you set up a simplified lab to review hardware-accelerated GPU virtualization for Windows desktop VDI workloads on Citrix XenServer. True GPU virtualization (a.k.a vGPU) on NVIDIA GRID cards is supported since Service Pack […]
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 […]
In this video, Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), Alexander Ervik Johnsen of www.ervik.as demos how to enable NVIDIA vGPU support in XenServer 6.2 SP1. To Download the Driver pack and install guide from NVIDIA click here To revert the process, aka uninstall please follow these steps: root@xenserver ~]# lsmod | grep nvidia [root@xenserver ~]# rpm -qa […]
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 […]
In this video, Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), Alexander Ervik Johnsen of www.ervik.as demos the latest XenDesktop 7.1 release and shows the user experience with NVIDIA GRID K2 and Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 HDX 3D Pro. The VM is running Windows 8.1 virtualized on XenServer 6.2 Service Pack 1 (SP1). XenServer 6.2 and vGPU Technology + NVIDIA […]
