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Citrix XenDesktop Wins 2009 Readers Choice Award in Desktop Virtualization Category
Citrix’s XenDesktop leads the pack by a wide margin
11/1/2009 » Enterprise interest in desktop virtualization has grown substantially this year as companies grapple with the sticky challenge of managing desktops with shrinking IT budgets. Hosted desktop virtualization enables enterprises to pool desktops in a central location for ease of management and stricter security control. It comes with tradeoffs, too, such as performance degradation; but vendors are working to overcome those issues with better display protocols. It’s still a new category, but there’s a lot of momentum in this space.
The Reader’s Choice winner here is clear, with Citrix’s XenDesktop leading the pack by a wide margin. Industry watchers like it, too. Earlier this year, VR reviewers Danielle and Nelson Ruest called XenDesktop a state-of-the-art hosted-desktop virtualization product that “may be the gold standard by which other products are judged in a feature-for-feature comparison” (see “Xen and the Art of Hosted Desktops,” December 2008/January 2009).
