Two weeks ago Citrix announced the unthinkable: XenServer, one of the technologies that acquired from XenSource for $500 million almost two years ago, becomes a free product. The move raised an unprecedented level of attention, from customers, partners and competitors. It’s not a speculation: the ...

While a new startup works to unofficially open source the VMware VMFS, Citrix has officially open sourced its implementation of the Microsoft VHD format. Citrix and Microsoft adopt the same virtual hard drive format since September 2007, when they closed a deal to adopt VHD in all the upcoming produ...

Yesterday, this announcement was made by Citrix: XenServer, our enterprise virtual infrastructure platform is now free (including resource pooling and live relo), and we have announced Citrix Essentials for XenServer, and Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V as our virtualization management portfolio that ...

Red Hat and Microsoft will validate each other's virtualization technologies per an agreement announced yesterday. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers. Hard to say what ...

It wasn’t a mega-high score, but I passed the 1Y0-264 Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server 4.5): Support exam with an 82%. Only needed a 64%. By section it was: Monitoring, Managing and Maintaining the Environment, 77%; Troubleshooting, 83%; Optimizing the Environment, 85%. I actually thought I ...

When VMware announced their bare-metal hypervisor and vClient initiative , I wrote that I hoped Citrix would buy a company like Virtual Computer or Neocleus to compete in the space. Instead Citrix built a bare metal solution themselves, announcing "Project Independence" last week . My firs...

VC, deals, IT Wade Roush wrote: Virtual Computer, a Westford, MA, PC virtualization startup that has been gradually decloaking since last fall, today announced that it’s raised a Series B funding round totaling $15 million. The surprisingly large round was led by Highland Capital Partners of L...

Citrixxperience has combined efforts with Certify U, owned by myself, Jeff Rohrer, and long-time Windows/Citrix technology instructor, Eric Steinberg, to produce several Citrix certification boot camps in 2009. The first boot camp is designed to assist in attaining the Citrix Certified Administrato...

Windows will run soon on the iPhone using Citrix Receiver, a remote screen software that connects to a PC and gives you the illusion you are running Microsoft's operating systems, including copy and......

I was having an interesting discussion the other evening at BeanSec with Jeanna Matthews from Clarkson University.  Jeanna is one of the authors of what I think is the best book available on Xen virtualization, Running Xen. In between rounds of libations, the topic of Hypervisor-neutral, VM por...