Last week, Citrix quietly released XenApp – XenDesktop v7.7. Typically, Citrix ensures there are some major announcements around new releases. However, since its annual Citrix Summit conference starts next week, the hoopla arrives in January for this late-December release.
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Container Efficiency
Many parallels are drawn between containers and VMs. At the same time, container evangelists are often quick to position containers as a replacement for virtualization. As is always the case, the new is different from the old but can learn from the past. Containers and VMs address different part of IT/IS, so they are not directly …
Next-Generation Private Cloud
A new generation of private cloud environments is being created now, ones where all the management is done via SaaS. This way, the heavy lifting is done by others, and you inherit an IT as a Service environment ready for you to add new workloads without worrying too much about upgrades, management constructs, or even, in some …
XenServer: A Hypervisor to Be Reckoned with in 2016?
As part of the revised Citrix focus on app and desktop delivery, the XenServer hypervisor is gaining increased attention within Citrix. Is it too little too late, or will IT shops find a way to get over the betrayal they felt when Citrix seemed to abandon XenServer?
Rumors Are Afoot: Is the Dell/EMC Merger Starting to Unravel?
It has been an interesting time to be living in the IT world. The ripples and ructions caused by the Dell/EMC merger have quashed almost every other conversation. This is the biggest take-private merger transaction for a tech company ever, dwarfed only by the $106 billion Time Warner/AOL deal in 2006.
Docker: Where Does It Leave the Network Admin?
It’s the end of the year, and a good time for thinking back. I’m thinking back to a dark past long ago, when physical servers ran server operating systems, and ran applications—when those servers plugged into a switch, and each endpoint was a single server. The network team could see every device, endpoint, or switch, …
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