This week Citrix announced thet XenServer will be given away free. Their aim is to promote the adoption of virtualization with their Enterprise-Class, Cloud Proven software. In fact nearly all Internet based virtualization is use Xen as the hypervisor.
What a brillant move by Citrix. Now organizations that want to adopt virtualization or just want to [...]
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Citrix gives XenServer away
Open Cloud Consortium sets the standard
The rapid development cloud based services has presented technology consumers a big range of choice. Currently when you choose a cloud service provider or providers you need to consider the long term cloud strategy of your organisation. This is especially true if you are planning on using cloud based database and platform based services. The [...]
Saas call to action from Microsoft
It has only been a couple of months since Microsoft released details on what it will offer in its cloud based services, which include Windows Azure, .Net Services, SQL Services and Live Services. The actual impact of these services to the Internet based application community will not be evident for some time yet.
In the mean [...]
Linux VDI solutions and Cloud Computing
The benefits and risks of Cloud computing have been mentioned quite a lot lately by industry heavy weights, IT professionals and myself. The aim of Cloud computing is to simplify IT delivery, management and reduce costs.
If the majority of your applications become cloud born then do you really need a dual core or quad core [...]

