Desktop virtualization: Vendors fight but users still happy

Cisco's Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI), which Cisco and Citrix jointly announced yesterday, is essentially the same product set the two announced in September as the Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution with Citrix XenDesktop. The only new additions are two new thin clients designed in conjunction with Wyse , another that can take the place of a Cisco IP phone and a greater facility with videoconferencing using Cisco videophones, according to Cisco press materials.

VXI sells with a version of Citrix XenDesktop 5 configured to work well with Cisco's Unified Computing System, a combination of server, network and storage hardware designed as a modular building block for networks running resource-intensive, latency-averse applications like VoIP, video and virtual desktops.

The promise of cloud is heady

While the promise of cloud is heady, there is confusion about the different types of cloud, what they actually offer, and which will meet stringent business requirements. This paper focuses on separating the hype of cloud from the "how to".