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Workspace Virtualization

Desktop virtualization and application virtualization technologies are increasingly used throughout enterprises to reduce hardware costs, improve manageability, and ease deployment of corporate software assets to PCs. Desktop virtualization enables deployment of a full desktop environment with applications in it to PCs, and lets them run on a remote server. Using it IT can achieve greater efficiencies by centralizing PC resources.read more
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Akorri plugs BalancePoint in VMware vCenter

LITTLETON, MA--(Marketwire - November 19, 2008) - Akorri, Inc., the leader in performance and capacity management for the virtualized data center, today announced the availability of the BalancePoint™ Plug-In for VMware vCenter -- a new capability sold with its award-winning BalancePoint software solution that allows VMware administrators to use BalancePoint directly from their VMware vCenter console, simplifying the management of virtualized environments.
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KACE: New study reveals virtualisation not just for large enterprises; Application Virtualisation is fastest growing segment w

KACE: New study reveals virtualisation not just for large enterprises; Application Virtualisation is fastest growing segment with 4% of medium-sized enterprises reporting they have adopted or plan to do so
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Acresso talks AdminStudio and application virtualization

Acresso's AdminStudio offers support for Microsoft App-V, Citrix XenApp, and VMware ThinApp. So why do they focus on the application virtualization market? READ MORE
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Windows on iPhone: Citrix pledges to make it reality

With customers clamoring for Windows applications on the iPhone, Citrix Systems' will soon deliver, enabling users to display Windows apps and full desktops on the Apple device.
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Long Time Software Virtualization Pioneers Join InstallFree, Inc.

InstallFree, Inc., the leading provider of Dynamic Desktop Computing, today announced that long time Application and Desktop Virtualization veterans Rashied Akrum and Carina Rozendaal will join InstallFree as the Vice President EMEA and Senior Director of Sales & Marketing EMEA respectively. InstallFree is exhibiting its Application and Desktop Virtualization solutions this week at Microsoft Tech-Ed in Barcelona, Spain at booth B15.
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Acresso Announces AdminStudio Beta Support for Streamlining Microsoft App-V Deployments

Acresso Software today announced at the Microsoft TechEd EMEA 2008 IT Professionals Conference that the AdminStudio application readiness solution will provide beta support in early 2009 for Microsoft’s Application Virtualization (App-V) solution. Today’s announcement makes Acresso the first and only vendor to offer built-in application virtualization preparation and packaging for the much-anticipated Microsoft App-V platform, enabling enterprise IT organization to further reduce application management costs.
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F5 Networks, Inc. F4Q08 (Qtr End 9/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript

F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV)

F4Q08 Earnings Call

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Microsoft licensing keeps Windows out of virtual appliances

Now that the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is available, increasingly more applications will be packaged as OVF-based virtual appliances. But don't hold your breath for virtual appliances based on Microsoft Windows, observers say. Generically speaking, virtual appliances consist of one or more applications, and operating systems pre-installed and preconfigured inside a virtual machine. The recently released OVF provides a standard way to package such appliances.
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DataCore Storage Virtualization and Citrix's "XenApp-Optimized" XenServer 5: A Certified and Winning Combination for Resellers a

DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that its SANsymphony(TM) and SANmelody(TM) products have been certified on Citrix's newest XenServer 5 release as virtual SAN appliances, as well as on both standard servers and blades. With XenServer 5, Citrix has optimized Citrix XenApp performance on XenServer virtual machines. According to Citrix, this enables XenApp workloads to be virtualized with as little as 7% overhead and as many as 73% more users than XenApp workloads virtualized with competing products.
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