| Citrix CTO On Virtualization And Citrix |
| Thursday, 19 October 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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"For most people, when you mention Virtualization they think of hardware virtualization products like VMware or Virtual Sever. However, Virtual Machine environments have been with us on Mainframes for many years, but the industry is now getting excited about the fact you can have VM’s on X86 machines. So why is hardware virtualization important? Well, in the data center today the majority of machines are underused, typically running at low CPU utilization rates. Hardware virtualization allows you to consolidate underutilized machines into a smaller number of physical machines and hence reduce your total number of machines in the data center." "When I think about Citrix and virtualization, I think about the fact that our technology exhibits a number of attributes of virtualization, we can separate out the user context on a single machine for multiple users, i.e. we virtualize, file, register and named objects. We also take the user interface and virtualize it to display at another physical location..." Read it all here.
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