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 apples comparison.
Not included in the comparison is the difference in storage costs which can
be small or very significant depending on the circumstance. Amazon provides
up to 160 GB of instance storage for a small image or 850 GB for a large
included in the hourly cost. If you have only a small instance say 10GB that
adds $ 2.50 to the monthly price at Terremark ( @ .25/GB ) however of ... (more)
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 NetBo... (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)
Last week I presented at the iPhone Developer Summit iPhone Developer Summit
an alternative option of app development for the iPhone or any mobile device.
The basic premise is to use the Tools or Development platforms you already
know to modify or build applications that can optimized for viewing on the
iPhone yet actually run on XenApp servers within the datacenter.
The concept was very... (more)
Citrix has released a public AMI ( Amazon Machine Image ) in the EC2 Cloud
recently as part of the C3 Lab initiative with Amazon Web Services. XenApp
Fundamentals is the new name for Access Essentials which is an ideal solution
for SMB's looking for a simple way to administer and deliver Windows apps to
office PC's, Thin Clients, Desktop Appliances, home PC's, Mac's, Laptops or
mobile de... (more)