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Every IT department is in a diff erent place with toolsets, management and automation. 29 AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010 | VIRTUALIZATION REVIEW | VOL. 3, NO. 5 2 Online TOC COLUMNS 39 Ad/Edit Index 4 Hoard: BRUCE HOARD A Man of Many Hats UPFRONT 36 How-To Guy: DAVID DAVIS 6 Q&A Using VMware Go to Virtualize Servers Gratis Cloud Platforms for Service Providers 38 Everyday Virtualization: RICK VANOVER 10 Review Why I Like VirtualBox Acronis Backup & Recovery: Versatile Backup Package 40 Take 5: BRUCE HOARD Impressions of VMware 14 Review Catbird vSecurity: Product Suite Serves FEATURES Private, Public Clouds 16 VMware Wants to Reign Supreme VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz has bet the farm on cloud computing. 24 The Rapidly Expanding Universe of VDI One of the hottest virtualization markets to date is turning into a vendor free-for-all as a mixture of established and startup companies rush to stake their claims. 29 Virtualization Enables Cloud Computing How will your systems make the transition? We off er answers 1410 to seven questions about cloud migration. COVER ILLUSTRATION FROM SHUTTERSTOCK FROM ILLUSTRATION COVER VirtualizationReview.com | Virtualization Review | August/September 2010 | 1 VIRTUALIZATIONREVIEW.COM AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010 ■ VOL. 3 ■ NO. 5 what’s online @virtualizationreview.com EDITORIAL STAFF Vice President, Editorial Director Doug Barney Editor in Chief Bruce Hoard Managing Editor Wendy Gonchar Citrix and Microsoft Associate Managing Editor Katrina Carrasco Citrix Associate Managing Editor Marti Longworth Target Enterprise Users COLUMNISTS Citrix Systems Inc. and Microsoft Bare-Metal David Davis built on their long-term Hypervisor Rick Vanover relationship with a new Beats ART STAFF agreement calling for each Creative Director Scott Shultz company to satisfy the desktop VMware Art Director Brad Zerbel and server virtualization Citrix Systems ONLINE/DIGITAL MEDIA requirements of enterprise users. 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The idea for PC Extender, which converts a PC into a thin client, came in June 2009 after meetings in the fi eld with Bruce Hoard customers, partners and prospects. McNaught brought the concept to his engineers and collaborated with the product team on its The thin client was prototyped in cooperation with Citrix A Man of Many Hats and debuted at Comdex in November 1995. It was unveiled on Monday and Jeff McNaught has done a lot of interesting, fun stuff in the course of his IT career. He started his own software company, worked for won a “Best of Comdex” Radio Shack on the TRS-80, and during his 23 years at Wyse was award on Wednesday. co-developer of the fi rst Windows-based thin client that remains the model for all thin clients sold today. Currently, he’s chief marketing design, production and marketing, and after a and strategy offi cer at Wyse, a position that enables him to hop on a lengthy beta period, it was unveiled this May at plane, jot down some ideas on a few slides and then turn those ideas the Citrix Synergy conference. into a product. The genesis of Wyse Xenith came in late The thin-client prototype story is illustrative. It was 1994, and January of this year when McNaught hopped the PC was king. McNaught teamed up with Curt Schwebke— on that plane and started creating slides. currently the Wyse CTO—to produce a product that would enable Xenith is a “no-compromise” zero client that companies to recentralize PC applications. To many, this meant delivers new benefi ts to existing customers dethroning the king: Microsoft. In fact, when McNaught and moving to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Schwebke presented their idea to Wyse President Doug Chance, he McNaught took the idea to infl uential Citrix walked out of the meeting. employees and generated internal excitement Chance’s negative reaction to the thin client was not a confi dence with them. He also went to Richard Antuna, booster for McNaught, who recalls, “Oh yeah, back then there were Wyse senior VP of product management, many times when I walked back to my desk and said, ‘I am so fi red.’” business development and alliances, who joined Fortunately, Chance changed his mind: The thin client was forces with him to push the product through prototyped in cooperation with Citrix and debuted at Comdex design and engineering. Once Citrix President in November 1995. It was unveiled on Monday and won a “Best and CEO Mark Templeton gave his blessing of Comdex”