PlateSpin Forge is a hardware appliance that allows system administrators to protect physical and virtual workloads by leveraging embedded virtualization. PlateSpin Forge includes all of the software, hardware, and storage needed to deploy a simple disaster recovery solution.
Citrix XenDesktop is a dedicated software solution for configuring virtual environments. While virtualization can apply to several areas, including the virtualization of servers, storage, as well as networks, XenDesktop is specifically designed for the configuration of virtual desktops.
Parallels Server for Mac is a server-side desktop virtualization product built for the Mac OS X Server platform and is developed by Parallels, Inc., a developer of desktop virtualization and virtual private server software.
VMware View Clients for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, iOS, and Android allow you to connect to your VMware View virtual desktop from your device of choice giving you on-the-go access from any location.
The Horizon Suite all-in-one approach provides powerful advantages over other solutions on the market. Organizations using Horizon Suite receive more value and more capabilities than those using the various point tools supplied by Citrix. They also enjoy a money savings and a quicker Return on Investment (ROI) by purchasing a packaged suite as opposed to purchasing, installing, and maintaining individual tools from Citrix
PHD Virtual Monitor 10.0.1 – a new update of the product from PHD Virtual. This product is compatible not only with VMware vSphere, but also with Citrix XenServer. The product can monitor not only the physical hypervisors and their respective VMs, but also the surrounding physical infrastructure (servers, switches, routers…). The application monitoring is also possible where you can get deep look at your applications (running inside of VMs or on physical servers) requires the agent deployment in each VM or physical server.
A value leader in the virtualization space, XenServer is an open source platform for cloud, server and desktop virtualization infrastructures. Organizations of any size can install XenServer in less than 10 minutes to virtualize even the most demanding workloads and automate management processes, thereby increasing IT flexibility and agility and lowering TCO. With a rich set of management and automation capabilities, a simple and affordable pricing model and optimizations for virtual desktops and cloud computing, XenServer is designed to optimize datacenters and clouds today and in the future
vOptimizer Pro 2.1 is a new tool from virtualisation specialist Vizioncore that automatically manages the hard disks used by virtual machines (VMs) hosted by VMware ESX Server. The suite does not work with VMs hosted on the embedded VMware ESXi, although support may be added in a future version (see VMware’s web site for an explanation of the differences between ESX and ESXi). Currently, vOptimizer Pro, which costs $299 (~£202) per processor socket, works only with VMs running Windows 2000 or later, although support for Linux VMs may be added later this year.
