Tony Asaro

Charles Babcock, writer for Information Week, reporting from Citrix Synergy Event in Houston – wrote: “Citrix Systems is changing its emphasis on virtualization. From now on, it's less about launching virtual machines in the data center and more about delivering virtual services to user desktops.” Here is the link to the full article: "Citrix Shifts Virtualization Spotlight To Desktops" This is a very compelling statement that requires further analysis. - Delivering services to user desktops leveraging virtualization has always been important to Citrix and one of the main reasons they acquired XenSource. So what is the "shift"? - I think the sentence: "it's less about launching virtual machines in the data center..." provides the answer. The implications are pretty strong that the "shift" is server virtualization isn't a core focus for Citrix going f... (more)