Citrix - Understanding Machine Virtualization

Posted By: Charles | Jul 28th, 2008 @ 12:07 PM | 61,380 Views | 8 Comments
Citrix is all about virtualization. They have a suite of tools that enable IT departments to virtualize almost everything. Citrix is a Microsoft Certified Partner and, to some extent, a competitor. How does this Partner Competitor relationship work? Microsoft is very interested in virtualization technologies and with the advent of our hypervisor technology, HyperV, and application virtualization software, SoftGrid, you can bet that we'll compete hard with other virtualization vendors.

Here, we meet Simon Crosby, formerly CTO of XenSource now working as the CTO of Citrix Systems (NSDQ: CTXS)' virtualization and management division(Citrix purchased XenSource). We discuss the relationship between Microsoft and Citrix, the complexities of building scalable, sercure, reliable and performant virtualization technologies and the future of virtualization. It's a very interesting conversation and Simon is quite the conversationalist. Enjoy.
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#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 2:52 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
Bad camera angles... I'll take the blame for that since I could have had the camera crew set up the shoot differently. Alas, I am not much of a set producer. I just like to have conversations... We will get this right as we use the studio more. Next time, there will be no hands and legs in front view.

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