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Free Type 1 Hypervisors Pave the Way for Desktop Management Software Reinvention
by Tom Rose on Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:30 PM 0 comments, 1928 views

It was great to hear the news from Citrix Synergy that XenClient, Citrix's Type 1 hypervisor being built in partnership with Intel, will be offered free of charge.

Back when the news of the Citrix/Intel relationship and Project Independence (the code name for XenClient) first broke, we agreed with the experts who said embedding the bare-metal client hypervisor in the chip would accelerate mainstream...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged citrix, type 1 client hypervisor, virtual desktop management
Which Desktop Virtualization Model is Best - VDI, Type 2, Type 1?
by Chris Midgley on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM 1 comment, 1712 views

I’ve read a number of articles and blogs lately that tout one form of desktop virtualization infrastructure over another. Some say thin terminals running against desktops hosted on virtual server farms (VDI/HVD/CVD) is the most obvious solution. Why would you want the complexity of a desktop on the edge when you can centralize everything?

Others claim that the best solution is to run a desktop...

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Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged type 1 client hypervisor, type 2 hypervisor, vdi
Citrix Announces Bare-Metal Desktop Hypervisor and Intel Partnership
by Tom Rose on Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM 0 comments, 1407 views

Yesterday Citrix announced what has been rumored for some time - it is developing a Type 1 client hypervisor based on Xen that will ship later this year. The new wrinkle is that it is doing so in partnership with Intel, who has agreed to make changes to its vPro virtualization chip technology to accomodate the new bare-metal desktop hypervisor. In a companion announcement, Citrix also introduced Project...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged bare-metal hypervisor, type 1 client hypervisor