I recently confirmed all of the speakers for the server virtualization track at Catalyst North America, and am very excited about the participants. The conference runs the week of July 26th, with workshops on Monday and Tuesday and conference breakout sessions from Wednesday to Friday. Wednesday we’ll have a full day of cloud coverage, and [...]

As a follow-up to my previous post on Synergy 2010, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the cloud and server virtualization announcements. Citrix made the following product announcements at the conference: Citrix Unveils Open, Extensible, Turnkey Cloud Solutions Citrix Unveils Next XenServer Release as Reports Show Server Virtualization Market [...]

This is the last piece of original content that I’ll be posting to my chriswolf.com blog. Starting today, I’ll be posting new thoughts on my site on the Gartner Blog Network. As far as content goes, nothing will change. I’ll continue to post analysis and tips just as I always have. Also, I will use [...]

As a follow-up to my previous post on Synergy 2010, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the client virtualization-related announcements. Citrix made the following product announcements at the conference: Citrix and Wyse Accelerate Mainstream Adoption of Desktop Virtualization with Zero Client Technology Citrix XenClient Delivers Virtual Desktops “To Go”for [...]

Last week’s Citrix Synergy conference, Citrix’s largest ever, offered quite a bit of innovation and news. I’d like to start with Burton Group news, and will follow up with posts on client virtualization and cloud. Last Wednesday at Synergy we unveiled the Burton Group Server-hosted virtual desktop evaluation criteria and presented product [...]

Next week I’ll be participating in a webcast with the folks at Veeam on the subject of data protection and recovery architecture. The webinar will run on Wednesday May 26th at 4 ET and will also be available for replay. Here’s the topic information: Times have changed, but has your data protection and recovery architecture? Backup [...]

I submitted four proposals for this year’s VMworld conference and learned that three of them are up for voting. I think the fourth is in a VMworld black hole. I wasn’t notified that it was accepted and it’s not up for voting either. I guess I’ll know soon enough… If you’re curious, that proposed session [...]

If you’re attending Synergy this year and wanted to stop by one of my sessions, I thought I would post them here. I’m participating in four sessions at this year’s conference: Geek Speak Tonight! Date / Time: Tuesday May 11, 4:30 pm – 6:45 pm Room:Moscone West Convention Center – Moscone 2000-2002 Speakers: Shawn Bass, Simon Crosby, Rick Dehlinger, [...]

Over the past twelve months, the innovation in the client virtualization space has been pretty remarkable, and several  solutions will be on display at next week’s Citrix Synergy conference. Because of the sheer volume of vendors on the show floor, I thought I’d point out vendors that may be under your radar but are worth [...]

On Tuesday VMware and Salesforce.com announced their joint venture – vmforce.com. Both vendors offered informative blog posts about the announcement, and I recommend reading the following: VMforce and VMware’s “Open PaaS” Strategy (Steve Herrod) VMForce: Why? What? How? (Anshu Sharma) VMforce Provides Spring Cloud Platform (Rod Johnson) These posts are also worth reading: Analyzing the VMforce announcement and  PaaS portability challenges [...]