…nnounced UCS, people were lining up at the door to tell us it would never succeed. And here we are two years later, ranked #3 globally in the x86 Blade Server Space, according to IDC. How’s that for proving our critics wrong? 1:31 FlexPod: Science Fiction or Cool Design Architecture? FlexPod is now available through 120 channel partners worldwide! While a FlexPod sounds like some kind of futuristic spacecraft, it’s actually a design archi…

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Tags: B2B, blog, citrix, citrixsynergy, debunk, differentiate, FlexPod, Microsoft, networking myths, partner, partnerupdate, WebEX

One of the key takeaways I heard consistently at the recent Citrix Synergy conference was the fact that you shouldn’t just do IT for IT’s sake: Your top consideration should be the end user experience. That’s one of the key lessons Seattle Children’s Hospital learned when it recently deployed Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) blade to support a 3000-plus deployment of virtual desktops and zero clients. This dep…

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Tags: citrix, citrixsynergy, IT, partners, virtual desktop, virtualization, vxi

Employees, and many businesses, want to allow personal devices to be used at work, and potentially for work. However, balancing that with corporate policies for information security, clear rights-of-use, liability, and then bounding it within an acceptable IT cost structure is no small feat. Cisco has joined forces with leading MDM vendors to link together a solution that starts at day zero – when an employee first buys a new device and tries to…

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There was a lot energy yesterday at Cisco Live — A larger than expected crowd gathered in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, showing a growing interest for Cisco and Cisco partners. At the end of a series of video interviews I was happy to welcome for a  quick panel on desktop virtualization Citrix Natalie Lambert, NetApp Vaughn Stewart and Cisco Doug Dooley If you want to know more about Cisco Desktop Virtualization, check also this video…

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Almost a year after we first announced Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure — or what we call VXI — we are about to announce the next phase of major enhancements. During the course of this year we have seen the desktop virtualization market mature from tire kicking pilots to some pretty large deployments, including some over 10,000 seats. Cisco UCS has been a very popular platform for these deployments with hundreds of Citrix XenDesk…

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