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.




