TechTarget: VMware vs. Citrix Virtual Desktops — What’s the Better Deal?

TechTarget published the comparison between Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View 4. Read some ideas below and visit TechTarget’s SearchVirtualDesktop.com to read the full article.

Among others, Bridget Botelho writes:

VMware may rule the server virtualization market today, but its VMware View 4 virtual desktop software falls short when compared with Citrix Systems' XenDesktop 4 in terms of flexibility, capabilities and delivery, according to many experts.

Citrix recently released its Flexcast technology to let IT deliver any type of virtual desktop that end users need -- not just the server- hosted version of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that VMware offers, said Jim Sanzone, a practice director for desktop and application virtualization at New York-based virtualization consulting firm Virtera.

"Citrix has recognized that there is no one silver bullet with desktop virtualization; you won't solve all of your problems with just VDI," said Sanzone, who offers both XenDesktop and VMware View. "There are elements -- app streaming, presentation server, provisioning server - that don't fit into a hosted desktop solution. So people like XenDesktop's flexibility."

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