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Citrix VDI-in-a-Box

First Published on June 6, 2011 - 8,007 Views

Even before Citrix Synergy started last Wednesday, Citrix had already made one major announcement, with the news that Citrix has acquired Kaviza and along with it Kaviza’s SMB desktop virtualization solution VDI-in-a-Box. The early announcement during the Citrix Summit channel partner conference being a nod to Citrix’s view that this news was of greatest importance to its channel partners.

With the acquisition news still fresh, and after sharing the stage with Mike Peercy, Kaviza’s Co-Founder & CTO, at Synergy on Wednesday morning it seemed only right to start my Synergy solutions review with what is now Citrix VDI-in-a-Box.

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What does the future hold for the ‘other’ Desktop Virtualization startups

First Published on June 2, 2011 - 2,437 Views

The news that Citrix was moving to acquire Kaviza had quite a few people asking me what does this mean for the remaining desktop virtualization start-ups?

My response: “Nothing.”

To understand that let’s look at Pano Logic. Of all the desktop virtualization vendors, Pano Logic might be seen as being most at risk from VDI-in-a-Box becoming a Citrix product. Pano Logic adopted a similar model to Kaviza, both companies targeting the SMB market with simple to use high-performance solutions, unencumbered with the need to provide integration with legacy solutions.

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Citrix snaps up Kaviza

Citrix snaps up Kaviza

First Published on May 23, 2011 - 2,375 Views

The big, if not unexpected, news of Citrix Summit is that Citrix has decided to make good on its past investment in Kaviza by buying it outright. This is a clear win-win situation for Citrix, Kaviza, the channel and customers.

As awareness of desktop virtualization increases in smaller organizations, potential adopters put off by the complexity of XenDesktop will tend to consider Quest vWorkspace and VMware View as the de facto alternatives.

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Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box 3.1

First Published on September 22, 2010

Still basking in the glory of being awarded the Best of VMworld 2010 award, Kaviza had another reason to celebrate this morning when it quietly slipped out an upgrade to its VDI-in-a-box package.

Version 3.1 of VDI-in-a-box includes a number of worthwhile updates. Most notably Kaviza now supports VMware ESX and ESXi 4.1 hypervisors, and through its relationship with Citrix now includes support for the Citrix Receiver for the Apple iPad and iPhone as well as the Receiver for Android, as well as providing continued support for all HDX and RDP thin clients.

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