If you buy direct you have to buy one from Citrix, the other from Cisco, though VARs and resellers will to the install or configuration for you.
Unfortunately, while the software and hardware are designed to work well together, Citrix supplies templates to make it easy to create users for either VDI or shared-hosted-OS sessions, the two are not so tightly packaged or integrated that you can get them as one easily installed units. The Citrine I spoke to was Natalie Lambert, who directs product marketing for XenDesktop after a high-profile career as an analyst at Forrester, who didn't mention the questionable stat, but did talk about how efficiently the integrated hardware/software package could be rolled out, in modular chunks able to support 300 or 400 end users via any of the seven delivery methods XenDesktop claims. Most analysts say virtual-desktop projects break even at best, and many cost more to install or run than standalone PCs. That's a third the TCO of the whole notebook, but there's no way virtualizing the notebook is going to keep the whole thing from needing any support (Ever dropped one? Ever washed a dirty one? ). The release cites a Gartner study showing the TCO of a virtualized laptop should "reduce support costs by 51 percent, an item that accounts for 67 percent of PC-related IT expenses." Which, I think, means you take the total TCO of a laptop, subtract 33 percent, then take half the cost of the remainder, and that's the chunk virtualizing the laptop could potentially save by keeping users from installing bad software.
Rather than having to drag around a name like Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution with Citrix XenDesktop, the updated version debuts as the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI), which is shorter but also much more annoying because the long version doesn't tell you what the product is supposed to do, and the short version (XVI - pronounced as the letters X, V and I) has hardly anything to do with the long name.Ĭisco added two new thin clients and a tablet called the Cisco Cius (due to ship in March), all of which will work with XVI implementations that use the Citrix Receiver thin-client virtual-desktop client.
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