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thevarguy | May 13, 2015

This week both Citrix (CTXS) and VMware (VMW) independently outlined a future of desktop virtualization that relies heavily on the cloud to simplify the deployment and ongoing management of the virtual desktop.At the Citrix Synergy 2015 conference Citrix announced a public beta program for Citrix Workspace Cloud, an implementation of its desktop virtualization software that relies on a control plane hosted in the cloud to create modules consisting of everything from specific types of desktops to...

forbes | July 15, 2015

Virtualization has long been used to wring efficiency out of over-sized, under-used systems, but isolating applications and operating systems from the underlying hardware also produces immense flexibility that cloud services like AWS, Azure and Google GOOGL -0.46% Cloud exploit to deliver infrastructure on demand. Yet virtualization has become instrumental to solving the most vexing and serious problem facing IT providers and users: security. The trend towards virtualization-enhanced security ar...

thurrott | January 27, 2016

A panicked blog post from an ex-VMWare employee claims that the teams at the company responsible for VMWare Workstation and Fusion have been laid off. Worse, those products could now simply disappear.Note: VMWare’s earnings announcement does say that 800 people have been laid off and that the firm will now focus on “growth products”. The part of the company that made Workstation and Fusion was about 20 people. –Paul...

CRN | January 15, 2020

The industry's leading virtualization technology vendors—VMware and Citrix—have finalized a settlement that will avoid further litigation stemming from VMware's recent acquisition of Avi Networks. The two companies have “resolved the litigation” without taking their patent-infringement dispute to trial, confirmed Tony Gomes, Citrix executive vice president and chief legal officer. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. When it closed its deal for Santa Clara-based Avi Networks this past sum...