I think this is my 6 e or 7 e VMworld. Like most old computer can testify, they all seem to run together after a while. I have some memories Cloudy few different weeks in Las Vegas, a road trip in a van full of servers, and even an interview for my position here Citrix then literally set up a booth in the expo hall Sands. My colleagues of the past 14 years of computer virtual office were distributed throughout the virtualization ecosystem, so needless to say, this is the old home week. But not only because of my past, but also because I am surrounded by VMware customers that have deployed the main industry office solution and application virtualization for vSphere, Citrix XenDesktop.
Yet I have never felt more comfortable this week at VMworld. The main calculation of the end user much like he could have been out of the Citrix Executive Briefing Center, but there are some notable exceptions. Here are some of the things I have heard of VMworld:
Wow "VDI is not the answer to all user workstations.". After years of selling VMware hammer and processing all desktop users as a nail, it is good to hear the position change. VMware meets this revelation with their Wanova acquisition, which is a little dramatic ... Let virtualize and centralize with a virtual machine, or manage physical desktops with layers and infinite buttons. Of course, you can centrally manage, but it is two completely different management paradigms, and there is no indication when they meet. Meanwhile, Citrix offered and integration of multiple desktop delivery models with years of experience in large-scale deployment. If you understand the importance of flexibility and choice in desktop delivery models with the integration of careful management, the ads that we plan to Synergy Barcelona will knock your socks off.
"Apps are important, but the first version of AppBlast is to provide jobs"
OK, so I'm paraphrasing a bit. In the year since AppBlast was announced and never delivered, we learn that AppBlast is not on the applications, it is in fact yet another protocol. (YAP, for short) Thus, not only VMware is trying to play catch up with the HDX performance and device compatibility, but now it invests in YAP. I can certainly understand the draw to a ubiquitous HTML5 client, low cost to develop with a development team, cross-platform, etc., but as with any cross platform "standard" the best they can do with AppBlast is a lowest common denominator functionality. The Citrix Receiver strategy to implement HDX native on any platform with which a user walks through the door is expensive to develop and test, but our customers have been winning and we do not have to worry about changes and branching into the "norm".
"Yes, applications are really important."
again, paraphrasing, but again I could not feel more at home than VMware announced support for the most common app-delivery platform on the planet, Citrix XenApp. Now we do not know why our customers buy Horizon just to provision XenApp and brokers connections when they could use Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and XenApp native tools in use today manage millions of users on a daily basis. However, VMware rightly recognizes that you can not have a solution to meet the needs of a mobile workforce without deliver applications. Unfortunately, none of that is available today from VMware, but we would like to show you CloudGateway Citrix, which provides workstations, Windows applications, native mobile applications, secure mobile email, data and single sign on the web and federated SaaS applications from a single platform. He sends (like hotcakes, I might add).
"Cloud is on the administration of the virtual infrastructure."
The keynote of the first day, there was a lot of talk by execs, a cool announcement about pools flash resources in vSphere 5.1, a self-congratulations message about the list of customers and repealing vRAM tax (can you say Awkward?) and some speak of vCloud Director that looked a bit like vCenter except more complicated. I thought Cloud was on automation? Anyway, I then went to my colleagues in the Citrix Cloud group where I was shown a service catalog with price estimates and provisioned a new vSphere 5 cluster in about 20 seconds with Citrix CloudPlatform. OK ... now I understand.
So it was another year at VMworld. The industry is alive and buzzing with customers, and a wealth of innovation from new companies in the ecosystem. Old-home-week is fun, but it's never been a better time to be at Citrix.
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