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Citrix Announce Acquisition of Cloud.com

First Published on July 12, 2011 - 1,283 Views

Well this is interesting…

Not content to take a back seat to VMware, Citrix has reached for its check book and bought out Cloud.com and in a potentially risky move has somehow managed to coincide its announcement with VMware’s big cloud infrastructure launch announcement that is scheduled for 9 am PT today.

Originally known as VMOps, Cloud.com was founded by Sheng Liang, Shannon Williams, Alex Huang, Will Chan, and Chiradeep Vittal in 2008, formally launching as Cloud.com in May 2010.

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VMware extend the virtual workspace beyond the horizon

First Published on May 20, 2011 - 1,127 Views

Desktop computing entered an inflection point in April last year with Apple’s launch of the iPad.  As with many transformative events, it is easier to see their importance looking back than it is to see their significance at the time, and in this respect the iPad is no different. The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg came closer than most in grasping the potential of the iPad in saying.

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MokaFive intros Suite 3.0 and new DaaS platform

First Published on December 9, 2010 - 2,219 Views

Less than three weeks ago, after the announcement of new Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offerings from Desktone and Virtual Bridges, I wrote “The pace of innovation maintained by desktop virtualization ecosystem vendors continues to astound me.” In retrospect I think that might have been an understatement.

Redwood City-based MokaFive made two announcements this week, introducing its first cloud offering (MokaFive Suite Service Provider Edition) as part of its next generation desktop virtualization suite (MokaFive Suite 3.0) – MokaFive has clearly focused more on engineering than it has on funding product branding focus groups and appears to have done so to good effect.

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Chasing Desktops in the Cloud – II

First Published on November 19, 2010

The pace of innovation maintained by desktop virtualization ecosystem vendors continues to astound me. Just last week Austin, TX-based Virtual Bridges Inc. announced that IBM is using its flagship VERDE solution to provide virtual desktop management and provisioning capabilities for the IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform, and then on Monday Desktone Inc. launched release 3.0 of its desktop cloud management service; now Virtual Bridges is back in the news again with its announcement yesterday of the latest iteration of its desktop virtualization platform VERDE 5.

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Chasing Desktops in the Cloud – I

First Published on November 15, 2010

Frank Days (Novell’s brave and trusting Director of new and social media) invited me to participate in the Novell Cloudchasers podcast last week, where we discussed the opportunities for public cloud-based desktop services. In half an hour we didn’t have time to do anything more than scratch the surface of cloud-based desktops, so I’m hoping that my enthusiasm for employing radical means to redefine desktop virtualization nomenclature fueled by a volatile combination of caffeine and cold medication has not frightened him off and he invites me back to continue the discussion.

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Microsoft Azure enables roll your own desktop in the cloud – Updated

First Published on February 4, 2010

Microsoft’s head of marketing for Azure Prashant Ketkar, announced that Microsoft will be adding Remote Desktop Services and virtual machine support to Windows Azure. Without committing to a date Ketkar indicated that these new services were very high on the Azure team’s list of priorities, expectations are that these could be available by the start of Q3 if not sooner.

Aside from pricing ($0.12 per hour) there’s not much to say about this offering yet.  It’s nothing that you couldn’t do before with Amazon EC2.  But it’s early days yet and between now and when the services launch it might offer something of real interest.  Until then it does nothing more that encourage Amazon to sharpen its pencil and come up with some better pricing.

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