Last week Citrix announced a sweeping product launch aimed at Virtualizing
Desktops for any type of user or device. More than 70 new features are
included in the new XenDesktop 4, including the ability to host Desktop VM's
on Servers ( VDI ) or PC's online and offline. Users will be able to securely
access their apps and desktops from any device ranging from Office or Home
PC's to NetBooks, to Thin Clients to even iPhones. Another significant
component of the announcement is the inclusion of Citrix XenApp application
Virtualization so IT shops now have the flexibility to deliver apps and
desktops optimized for the user and use case.
This announcement has gotten the attention of many of the industries leaders
including Michael Dell. “Dell’s Flexible Computing vision alig... (more)
The recent announcement of the Terremark Cloud offering has raised
significant attention especially because of the competitive pricing and EC2
like features of elastic capacity and hourly charges with no commitment. On
the surface the Terremark entry price of $0.036 per hour seems very low
compared to Amazon EC2 at $0.10 but it's worth picking a few examples to
provide a more apples to a... (more)
Citrix announced the winners of the Citrix Ready XenDesktop
challenge. Multiple Thin Client vendors recently submitted videos
representing the best Thin Client to use with XenDesktop. The videos were
posted to CitrixTV and viewed by thousands in the community. The winners
were decided by Industry expert Doug Brown, plus Citrix Executives Sumit
Dhawan and Chris Fleck. In addition, the com... (more)
Since its introduction less than six months ago, there have been more than
200,000 downloads of Citrix Receiver for iPhone. Users have ranged from
Doctors to Lawyers to Systems Admins, all with a common desire to get their
job done whenever and wherever they are.
The iPhone's popularity has driven IT departments to look for safe ways to
allow employees to access corporate applications with... (more)
Citrix Systems just announced that more than 10 percent of Global Fortune 500
companies have downloaded and activated its Citrix XenServer virtualization
platform for production use in the last four months, with activations among
large enterprises spiking significantly after the release of XenServer 5.5
in June. Since making XenServer available for free unlimited production
deployment e... (more)
Chris Fleck is Vice President of Community and Solutions Development at Citrix Systems. Chris started his career at IBM working across multiple engineering and product organizations leading to Business Unit Exec of the IBM Industrial Computer Group. As a pioneer of new technologies, Chris founded an IBM spin-off to commercialize the initial Server Blade products as CEO of OmniCluster Technologies. At Citrix Chris is responsible for the Developer Network, solutions development, and growing the technical community around Citrix. As part of the Citrix CTO Office he is also involved with or leading multiple strategic initiatives at the company. Currently his hot topics include Mobility, Virtual Appliances and Cloud Computing. You can follow him on 
Jacques Durand
Alf Pilgrim
Per Sjofors
Kirsten Lytsen
Data Recovery Services
Colin Armitage
