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Citrix overhauls virtual desktop products for ‘personal cloud’

Citrix’s annual Synergy conference is opening with a bang this week, with Citrix previewing overhauls to nearly every component of its virtual desktop product lines, reaching from the data center to the iPad.

 


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Citrix’s goal is to make all data and applications available to users on any device, without threatening IT security. The PC era, which replaced the mainframe era, is now being replaced by the cloud era, and each user will have a “personal cloud,” said Wes Wasson, Citrix senior vice president of marketing.

“A personal cloud is something that is much bigger than just a Windows desktop,” Wasson said. “It’s the way people want to work, from any location, at any time, on any device, with everything they need to be successful.”

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The devices – PCs, thin clients, smartphones, tablets, etc. – are already there. What’s needed is better software to deliver applications and data, and more sophisticated data centers and networking tools to connect people to their personal clouds, he said.

Among the numerous announcements at Synergy, Citrix is unveiling “Project Olympus,” which combines its own XenServer virtualization product with OpenStack, a new open source cloud computing project launched by Rackspace and NASA. Olympus will help cloud providers or enterprises build scaled-out, self-service infrastructures with commodity equipment, Citrix said. An early access program for Olympus is opening now, with general availability planned for the second half of this year.

Citrix’s other announcements fall into a few categories: improving the end-user and IT manager experience, boosting efficiency in the data center, and providing secure connections from the data center and client devices to cloud services.

Highlights on the end-user side include:

• HD Faces for GoToMeeting, a high-definition video client for Citrix’s Web conferencing software, is entering a public beta.

• GoToManage for the iPad, which lets IT pros access physical and virtual desktops remotely to diagnose and fix problems, will launch for free in the Apple App Store this week.

• Citrix Receiver, the software that delivers virtual desktops and applications to user devices, supports 149 smartphones and 37 tablets. At Synergy, Citrix will demonstrate Receiver working on Google’s Chrome OS laptops, the HP webOS tablet, and Motorola’s Atrix 4G smartphone/laptop combo. Multitouch support on tablets is being upgraded, Wasson said.

• The second version of XenClient, a bare-metal hypervisor for installing virtual desktops on PCs, will be shown in a technology preview that expands the software to more types of laptops. Bare-metal desktop hypervisors are not widely used, but may offer greater security by isolating virtual machines, and a richer experience than streamed desktops by using the PC’s native horsepower. Citrix is upgrading XenClient to improve the user interface, synchronization, backup and remote data wipes.

• Citrix will also preview XenClient XT, a higher-end version with “extreme security, isolation and performance,” designed for government and other organizations in need of multi-layer security, Wasson said.

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Microsoft offers students a free Xbox with new Windows 7 PCs

If you are about to plunk down some cash for a new Windows 7 PC for your college studies, you may be able to score a free Xbox with that purchase. Microsoft is giving away a free Xbox 360 4GB console with the purchase of a Windows 7 PC $699 or more beginning this week through September 3, or until it determines that supplies have run out.

 

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The offer requires that the purchaser provide verification of college student status by either purchasing the machine by using an e-mail with an “.edu” address or by showing a student id at participating retailers. Online participating retailers include Dell.com, HP.com (beginning May 26) or the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft also offers a somewhat annoying free tool, called the PC Scout, that can help students find the right Windows 7 PC. But don’t use it if you over eight years old and you have a low tolerance for corny jokes. It’s “interactive” meaning its got an MC doing a lot of talking in between offering you radio buttons to move the buying process along.

Instead, the Microsoft store does a good job of pinpointing available laptops and specs with a few clicks. It showed me nine laptops/netbooks in the $699-$799 range within seconds. That Dell Inspiron Duo Convertible PC looks awesome, but the Lenovo IdeaPad U260 also looks beautiful and durable.

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Microsoft rivalling Apple and Google for app growth

Microsoft is claiming that its Windows Phone Marketplace is growing at the same rate as Apple and Google’s mobile app stores.

The Ballmer Brigade used the launch of the new Windows Phone Mango update to announce that it now has 18,000 applications in its store – which is impressive considering there were none last October.

 

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Microsoft also claims that it’s looking to beat the BlackBerry offering within the year, and is rivalling its peers for application development.

Gunning for Apple

Achim Berg, Corporate VP of Windows Phone Marketing, told the press: “We’re about to overtake RIM [in terms of the number of apps available], and we’re already head to head with iOS and Android in terms of growth.”

Microsoft says over 100 apps per day are being added to its Windows Phone catalogue, with that number increasing all the time.

However, there was nothing said about handset sales for people to actually download those applications on – we’re still waiting to find out how things are going on that front – although figures recently released by Gartner suggest that sales aren’t going all that well.

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