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Citrix: Why hypervisor dominance matters

Citrix: Why hypervisor dominance matters

...a long history with the Xen hypervisor: he was tech chief at XenSource, which developed the Xen hypervisor, when the Cambridge-based company was acquired... Read more

12 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

Citrix optimises XenServer for AWS cloud

...VMware's ESX and Microsoft's Hyper-V. Citrix acquired Xen creator XenSource in 2007. In a blog post published alongside the announcement, Crosby compared... Read more

27 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

Citrix rebrands its XenSource spoils

...Six months after spending $500m (£250m) to buy virtualisation specialists XenSource, Citrix has finished a rebranding exercise to pull together products from both... Read more

11 February, 2008 by Colin Barker

Citrix snaps up XenSource

...software has received another boost with the sale of fellow virtualisation firm XenSource to Citrix Systems. The deal is valued at approximately $500m (£250m) in... Read more

15 August, 2007 by Colin Barker

XenSource seeks to emerge from VMware's shadow

...the biggest new listing since Google in 2004. But VMware's rival XenSource is doing its best to remind companies of its product lineup with... Read more

15 August, 2007 by Colin Barker

Microsoft and XenSource is a one-way street

...specific lock-in rules. Recently, Microsoft announced that it would work with XenSource to allow para-virtualised versions of Linux to run on future Windows... Read more

31 August, 2006 by Brian Byun

Virtual unrealities exposed

...educated that market for everybody," says Simon Crosby, chief technology officer of XenSource, the commercial software company founded by Xen's creators. In the operating... Read more

17 July, 2006 by Matthew Broersma

Linux in the virtual world

...while a hot item, doesn't mean easy profits. Virtual Iron and XenSource both have altered course with their virtualisation products, which is software that... Read more

3 April, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Citrix rebrands Presentation Server as XenApp 5

...more than 25 percent over previous versions". Citrix bought the virtualisation company XenSource a year ago this August. The renaming of Presentation Server completes a... Read more

26 August, 2008 by Colin Barker

Virtualisation vendors warn of security challenges

...Conference in San Francisco on Friday, Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, said security policies could be broken by misconfiguration. "Virtualisation can challenge an... Read more

15 April, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Ex-XenSource CEO touts desktop virtualisation

...Pano Logic was founded by Nick Gault, previously founding chief executive of XenSource. Whereas XenSource focused largely on servers, Pano Logic's emphasis is on... Read more

28 August, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

XenSource fine-tunes Windows support

...XenSource has endowed its flagship virtualisation product with better Windows support, the company... Read more

3 April, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

Rivals launch competing virtualisation products

XenSource and Virtual Iron, two companies trying to profit from adoption of open... Read more

12 December, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Ex-Microsoft exec joins XenSource

XenSource, a start-up commercialising the open source Xen virtualisation software, said on... Read more

11 September, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Virtualisation: The cure for all software installation ills?

...it." Representatives from three powers in the virtualisation realm — EMC subsidiary VMware, XenSource with its open source Xen software and Microsoft with the proprietary Virtual... Read more

31 March, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

14 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

21 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

21 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

1 day ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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