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October 14, 2014

DATA CENTER

Changing the Economics of Desktop and App Virtualization at the Enterprise Edge

In my last post I discussed how Cisco UCS Mini is helping us expand beyond the traditional confines of the data center, to deliver desktop and app virtualization with exceptional user experience, manageability and TCO savings – at the enterprise edge. We’re only going to see more investment and focu…

September 23, 2014

DATA CENTER

Taking Desktop Virtualization Beyond the Data Center – with the Next Wave of Unified Computing

If you look back at the Cisco UCS launch on September 4th, and VMworld SF just prior, the last 4 weeks have been a tsunami of solution innovation milestones in unified computing, ie: where the next wave of Unified Computing is taking us.  If you haven’t already seen the launch event “Powering Applic…

August 20, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Citrix: Delivering the Unified Platform for Desktop and Application Virtualization

Today Citrix announced the latest advancements for XenApp and XenDesktop, built on the fourth release of their FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA).  With this evolution come significant improvements in Citrix Provisioning Services, Citrix Receiver, FIPS compliance, single console manageability ac…

June 11, 2014

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The #1 x86 Blade Server Is Also Your Best Choice for VMware Horizon

In case you missed it, last week Cisco partners, ecosystem, and customers everywhere applauded the latest IDC worldwide server tracker report citing Cisco UCS as the revenue market share leader in North America, eclipsing HP for the top spot in x86 blades. Cisco VP/GM Paul Perez said it best: “Custo…

May 21, 2014

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Breaking through Performance Barriers: Desktop Virtualization at Cisco Live

We’re halfway into Cisco Live!  Each year I find more and more attendees are coming to talk to us about running various desktop delivery models on UCS.  Some observations from folks I’ve chatted with: More and more of you are asking about NVIDIA GRID solutions for graphics intensive use-cases.  I ha…

May 7, 2014

DATA CENTER

Powering the New Citrix Mobile Workspace – built on Cisco UCS

Did you catch the news from Cisco and Citrix yesterday?  Here at Citrix Synergy, we announced the new Cisco Mobile Workspace Solution with Citrix.  This new jointly integrated solution brings together best of breed technologies from both companies to deliver a pervasively accessible end user workspa…

April 30, 2014

DATA CENTER

Delivering Workplace Mobility – Built on Cisco Unified Computing System

Citrix Synergy kicks off next week and Cisco is once again proud to be a platinum sponsor.  We’ll have an extensive suite of content at the event, and a number of our desktop virtualization and enterprise mobility experts on the ground. Need a Warm-up for Citrix Synergy? Before we dive into all the…

March 14, 2014

DATA CENTER

New Webcast: Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 with FlexPod Data Center – Cisco Validated Design

If you weren’t already aware, FlexPod is a huge success with desktop virtualization implementers.  This integrated infrastructure solution offers the scalability, performance and convenient infrastructure modularization that many look for when deploying virtual desktops. It should be no surprise the…

February 27, 2014

DATA CENTER

Things You Can Do in 16 Minutes: Pushing the VDI Performance Envelope with Cisco UCS, VMware Horizon View and EMC VSPEX

So what exactly can you do in 16 minutes?  Well, you can: Download and install your preferred tax prep software, because (if you’re in the US or Canada) April is coming Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame, then reminisce and/or lament about it for exactly 1 minute. Save 15% on your car insurance (y…