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The Truth About Windows Real-Time Architectures: According to VDC, over the past four years, Microsoft CE and XPe have grown to now dominate the embedded systems market in terms of dollar and unit volume. OF the overall embedded market there is a subset of deployments that require the kind of real-time determinism that CE and XPe...; Tags: Ardence Inc., Architecture, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows CE, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware; White papers 2005-04-11
Affordable, Low-Maintenance Networks Really Perform for Schools in Brazil: Ardence, Inc. is a global leader in designing and developing software solutions. Most network maintenance costs - and problems - stem from the need to configure and support every PC on an individual basis. The situation becomes magnified in schools, where non-technical staff members are charged with maintaining a complex...; Tags: Network Maintenance, Ardence Inc., Network, Intel Corp., Network Administration, Networking; Case studies

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XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer benefits but no panacea for IT managers: I am always skeptical about new technologies that "threaten" to transform the traditional PC desktop. In my 20 years following the PC industry, I've seen them all – server-based models, thin clients, application streaming technologies, hosted ASP and newer software-as-a-service models, even Linux. I still use a...; Tags: Desktop Management, Benefit, Server, ScriptStart, Leostream, Desktops, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-20
Citrix strays far from XenSource's original open source mission: In 2005, hot new startup XenSource was positioning itself as the open source alternative to VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server. Then came a controversial pact in 2006 between the powers that be at the Palo Alto virtualization software company and Microsoft. The mail goal, XenSource executives...; Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenSource Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-02-07
VMware acquires Thinstall: VMware just announced that it is acquiring Thinstall and it appeared wise to look a bit at what VMware is doing. The financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed. It is clear to me that that VMware is working very hard to be VIRTUALIZATION for...; Tags: Software, Application, Environment, VMware Inc., Technology, Virtual Machine, Thinstall Thinstall, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-01-16

Dell Flexible Computing Solutions: Deploying On-Demand Desktop Streaming: The Dell Flexible Computing Solution for On-Demand Desktop Streaming is based on the Citrix Provisioning Server for Desktops (formerly Ardence Software-Streaming Platform). This solution enables streaming the operating system and applications seamlessly to diskless client machines. This paper presents the steps required to deploy a Dell Flexible Computing Solution for...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., On-demand, EasyConnect Technology; White papers 2007-11-01
Citrix's end-to-end virtualization powerhouse hastens the massive disruption of PC applications as we know them: Citrix Systems is moving aggressively to desktop virtualization with today's announcement of the new Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 products. Combined with other recent Citrix strategic moves, the world of PCs and applications delivered as services is soon to be flipped. Heads or tails, both end users and those...; Tags: Desktop, Application, Advertisement, PC, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Citrix XenDesktop, PC Desktop, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-10-22
Citrix + XenSource: Microsoft's worst nightmare or dream-come-true?: Two Microsoft partners, Citrix and XenSource, have tied the knot. Microsoft should be ecstatic...or should it?Microsoft and Citrix have had a long and winding relationship, since 1997, when Citrix licensed its Multiple Windows technology to Microsoft. Citrix, for its part, got rights to the Windows Server source code and a...; Tags: Hypervisor, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., XenSource Inc., Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-08-15
Citrix gobbles up XenSource: Citrix said Wednesday that it will acquire privately held XenSource for $500 million in cash and stock in what's likely to be the beginning of a virtualization land grab. The purchase of XenSource is interesting since it puts Citrix into the virtualization market. Meanwhile, Citrix can combine XenSource with its...; Tags: Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., XenSource Inc., Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-08-15
Thinstall puts application virtualization on a diet: The good folks at Thinstall contacted me to comment on my LANDesk posts. Some of the interesting capabilities of LANDesk that allows applications to be encapsulated, streamed down to a user's system and run there in a protected environment came from Thinstall. Henrik Rosendahl, CEO of Thinstall helped me better...; Tags: Application, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Thinstall, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-08-06
Red Hat's next Linux due before March: Red Hat's next Linux due before MarchMaterialize ThisOn December 26 2006, Ctrix Systems acquired virtualization technology company Ardence Inc.Many of us who still see computers as science and not marketing and on ZDnet's erging tried out VMware to make copies of desktops and store these on servers. You are then...; Tags: Storage management, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Utility computing, Microsoft Corp., virtualization, server, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, Red Hat Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-12-28