VMware Player is becoming more directly comparable to VirtualBox, and a possible competitor given VMware’s marketing dollars. However we anticipate both products will co-exist in the marketplace.
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News: Windows 7 Migration for Enterprise Desktops Made Easy with Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity
Today, Liquidware Labs has announced a specific focus upon assisting with the migration from either Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7. This focus applies to all of the possible resulting deployment scenarios for Windows 7 (physical desktop, client side hypervisor, centralized VDI, or layered).
Liquidware Labs Launches Stratusphere™ 4.5
Liquidware Labs the pioneer and leader in the business of providing tools to service providers that automate and accelerate the assessment and migration of physical desktop to virtual desktops has announced the latest release of their Stratusphere toolset – adding profile migration, and support for VMware View 4, Citrix XenDesktop 4, and Windows 7.
News: Citrix Releases Revised XenDesktop 4 Licensing
Citrix have announced three important changes to XenDesktop 4 licensing: NEW device-based licensing option; NEW VDI Edition available in both user/device and CCU licensing; NEW Campus-wide Licensing Program for customers in the education industry.
Cloudy Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10)
There’s been a lot of press around the FREE Ubuntu 9.10 Linux distribution as a client operating system, and a wide set of comparisons made (typically by Mac or PC-using journalists) between Ubuntu and Windows 7, but 9.10 is also interesting from a broader virtualization and especially Cloud perspective. Ubuntu is managed by a UK company, Canonical, through a bona-fide foundation. Ubuntu will always be free, and is aligned with the Debian community.
News: Tranxition Releases new User Virtualization Solution – AdaptivePersona Foundation
Tranxition have announced the general availability of AdaptivePersona Foundation a user virtualization solution to enable VDI deployments utilising their personality hypervisor and unique SmartShadow technology