Year: 2011

Last week during the annual Citrix Synergy Summit, RackSpace announced the availability of a new hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offering in cooperation with Citrix.

The new platform features RackSpace comprehensive hosting services, leveraging Citrix technologies such as XenServer, XenDesktop and  XenApp. The platform, however, is not limited to Citrix technologies. Customers access the environment using a site to site connection between the corporate network and the RackSpace infrastructure.

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In June last year, virtualization.info reported about the fact that MokaFive was working an the development of a client hypervisor called BareMetal, and today MokaFive announced the release of MokaFive BareMetal. The hypervisor requires 2 GB and a 64-bit compatible CPU to run.

Some of the featues BareMetal provides are:

• Support for Intel, ATI and Nvidia GPUs
• Single desktop image for all machines

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Besides announcing a technical preview of the next version of XenClient, Citrix today also announced the release of XenClient XT, a new type supporting advanced levels of security, isolation and performance with extreme client computing requirements. XenClient XT will be available for download in June this year.

Citrix XenClient XT features:

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During Citrix Synergy this today, Citrix announced the release of a technical preview for the second version of their client hypervisor XenClient, and also introduced a new type supporting advanced levels of security, isolation and performance with extreme client computing requirements called XenClient XT. Version 2.0 is the follow up of version 1.0 which was released in September last year as part of XenDesktop 4.0 Feature Pack 2.

The Citrix XenClient 2.0 technical preview is available as of today.

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Beginning this month, virtualization.info reported that VKernel released a new diagnostics tool for VMware called CapacityVIEW. Now VKernel has released a new free tool called StorageVIEW. StorageVIEW provides visibility into the storage components of a VMware environment.

It provides the following features:

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Citrix spokesman Bill Burley announced yesterday the release of Citrix Service Provider Automation Pack for XenApp 6, available exclusively for Citrix partners.

This release is the first of the newly formed Cloud App Delivery group at Citrix.

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Citrix has released a technical preview of the upcoming Receiver for Windows 3.0. Receiver is the application which is installed on clients in order to access hosted applications and desktops. The Receiver will replace the Online Plug-in for Windows which is now embedded in Receiver.

New features:

• Internet Explorer 9 support.

• Simplified listing of USB devices in the Desktop Viewer.

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Ringcube has announced the release of version 4.0 of its OS virtualization platform called vDesk, announcing a shift from management of hosted virtualization to providing so called Containers for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments on top of VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop.

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Citrix announced the schedule of a webinar for the phase IV of the Virtual
Reality Check project from Jeroen van de Kamp (Enterprise Architect and CTO at Login Consultants) and Ruben Spruijt (Solution Architect at PQR).

Scheduled for June 15, 2011 at 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST, the webinar will cover the findings and best practices extracted from an extensive benchmark of Terminal Server and desktop workloads.

Attendance is free of charge, with registration required.

The Virtual Reality Check project was launched in 2009, as a non sponsored effort to compare VDI solutions from different vendors, and produced interesting results so far.

Open source vendor Red Hat announced on May 19th the general availability of the first update of its distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

This release introduces bugfixes and security updates over RHEL 6, released in November last year, while keeping application compatibility and ISV/IHV certifications.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 provides new features, including:

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